I won't ask a third time because I assume you aren't answering me because you don't have an answer other than the thought of a Repbulican majority gives you a case of the vapors.

You're right, it is 9/11 every month; it is unacceptable; it is going to stay that way.

They won't pass a bill.
Republican are already in charge and they will officially be in charge after November.
All the over-the-top things you're saying will happen.
If I'm seen as freaking out, very well then, but my freaking out has no bearing on the fact that Democrats are utter failures at leading. Being right is meaningless if you are ineffectual.

@camel, I agree with you and your post made me think about something in re: to the killbillers.....There is a saying in 12-step programs..."Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?"

By killing the bill or insisting on all or nothing, those on the far left will be in the right. But long term they will not be happy, nor have their needs met. In fact, it will make the situation worse with the Rethug majority we'll face after this year's elections. I don't know if I agree with Bob's fear of impeachment though....but the rest is bad enough.

I'd put nothing past these bastards. I do think the Dems will pass the bill because the alternative really isn't an option. Greg Sargent has a piece on the public option possibly picking up some steam through reconciliation. While I'm not holding my breath, it would be the one thing that the entire country agrees with and would make the mandate more palatable. It could also fire up the base in November. I do think it's a mistake to put this off for too long. They're only looking weaker by allowing this to drag on and what makes them think Republicans aren't going to do the same thing with any other legislation put forth? They'll likely drag out the jobs bill and the public is already sick of this. The Dems should force filibusters as Doris Kearns Goodwin suggested and so aptly put it, "They'd look like Assholes". Actually, that ship may have sailed!

While I really, really do understand that Congress and the White House have a lot on their plate, I keep getting the perception that they are capable of real concentration on one thing at a time.

If I am reading the Democrats right, I think they are SILENTLY laying their game plan for health care and a whole bunch of other goodies. I hope I am right...it's what I would do, and therefore, I consider it sheer political genius. :D

Let me explain.

Why would the President and the Dems continue to announce every thing they are doing, knowing that the second they do, the opponent machine is armed and aimed at obstructing it by whatever means necessary? The MSM had as big a part in causing confusion and anger over HCR as the Republicans did. Everything, all of the details were reduced to one common denominator; demagoguery.

Want to pass HCR? You must be a socialist. What does the MSM think about that word? I quote: "Could the Democrats really be Stalin Socialists?"

In that kind of ridiculous environment, I would silently go about getting the support I need to pass the legislation, and then I would bring it back to the floor before Republicans and the MSM had three months to throw names and lies at it. One day it would be: "We're not on healthcare right now", and the next it would be, "We're ready to vote on HCR today".

Maybe I'm wrong, but things seem veeeeeeeeeery secretive in Washington right now on the Dem side.

PPP, no they'll keep doing what they always do because they're stupid.

You're right about the quietness of what's going on. While some Senators and others are talking, it does appear that their plans are more stealth. I'd also suspect that they want to keep details from Liberman on defensive moves they can make to counter act the idiot Republicans. By the way, this is slightly off topic but, did any of you see Rachel Maddow's bit last night, in a game show format of "Pin The Debt on the Donkey"?

She basically laid out the conservative "deficit hawks" reputation the Republicans have built while turning surpluses into deficits and even trippling the deficit. Ronny Raygun won that distinction but, the point was how Republicans have never delivered on their fiscal responsibility bullshit and she chided the media to call them out on it when they show up on weekly tv panels. The Dems are the one's who should be pointing this out. They really suck at the PR. The GOP provides fodder on a daily basis and the Dems just allow those fastballs to strike them out looking.

I remember the 90s. Bill Clinton got caught getting a blowjob from his fat secretary and that gave us George W Bush. That won't happen to Obama. What happened is a lack of leadership cloaked in rhetoric.