Reply #2: Baucus got nothing, which should put some steel in the backbone

[Peacetrain]

of our blue dogs. The republicans are not going to move one inch. We can now say with a straight face, we tried every which way but up,, and the republicans did not give an inch. So we are free to jam it through. PO all the way. It will not work without the PO, especially if we use mandates.

In the end it plays much better this way. We got them coming and going.