Reply #62: Because With Each Passing Day During This (As CNN Puts It) Make or Break Month.......

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I keep hearing about the Dems retreating and giving up any ground that they may have had.

From 'single payer' to 'strong public option' to 'well - how about a weak public option - but it will still be a public option so we can call it as such' to 'co-ops'.

We've gone from meaningful health care reform to health insurance reform.

We got a lot of the groups that previously were against this - as now being 'on-board' (big Pharma, AARP, AMA, Federation of Hospitals).

The only reason I can see them getting behind this is that they don't see 'health reform' as a threat anymore - because the Dems caved on everything.

Bottom line when Gregory asked Coburn if the Repugs will now support this bill - now that it seemed that all the compromises were going their way. He couldn't get a commitment out of him.

We all know whats going to happen. We will have bent over and compromised to get bipartisan support - and the Repugs will vote against it anyway. Then when it fails - because they've weakened it to ineffectiveness and failure - they will blame the Dems.

How come all of us here at DU see this and President Obama doesn't?