So many agendas, so little time.

Perhaps someone can report whether Lieberman will support the bill. Ultimately, Reid's approach has the Democratic party playing Charlie Brown kicking the ball held in Traitor Joe's hands. It does not seem irrational for the administration to be a tad skeptical.

I don't know what or who to believe at this point, because there are so many contradicting stories. But i do know one thing, and that this Obama has become leaderless.

Lost in all of this is the fact that most Americans will not benefit from this. Sen Wyden has a proposal that would allow EVERYONE to participate. Not just those without insurance now. He was forced to withdraw the amendment in committee. Under current proposals, folks with insurance through their employers will not be eligible for the new reforms. I don't understand the Dems not backing this proposal.

Darn those Senate divas.....the confusion is over a handful of cloture votes....and it seems we have a few fluttery eyed Dem Senators who go one way and then the other.

Harry counts 'em one way; White House skeptics count 'em another way. A few of us out here wail about Joe, the Snake.

Darn those Senate divas...no one's paid them this much attention in their entire lives......

You know, there's a reason why guys like Booman look prescient right now and ideologues on both sides look like Cassandras. People who keep gaming this out based on ideology love to make accusations such as that Obama is somehow driven by a bipartisanship fetish, wherein he covets Snowe's vote above a good bill, for some unknown reason based on Unity, or he's hell-bent on a Communist style takeover of the medical industry. The Neocons think in the same way, where the Enemies are driven by insane irrationality, rather than goals that they want to actually achieve.

In the end, until people admit that all the parties are operating under strategies and take the time to contemplate what those strategies are, they'll keep looking like they have no clue.

Great. Can the opt-out be removed by amendment? As it will make health insurance in swing states a political football and I am in one of the those states.

Can it be amended to be available to all Americans? I hope that the bill offered by Senator Reid gets Amended to be better than it is.

If we can stop pretending that a trigger is anything real, and if we can be clear who in the senate has the least bit intention of defying the American people and the caucus by trying to block an up or down vote. Then we can get to work on putting pressure on in the appropriate places.

Trigger, give me a break. Snowe seems like an idiot to me and I can't believe her constituents are being so supportive of her when she treats us all like idiots.

So now it's "skepticism"? What happened to "pushback"? Anonymous sources got cold feet or what?

The White House isn't in favor of what Reid appears to want to do, but they'll back whatever he says. I think it's pretty universally agreed that Reid is a weak leader (at best)who can't get Democrats to do anything in the Senate. How weak then is a White House that cannot get the limp wristed Harry Reid to do what it wants when it is the majority leader's job to carry the water for the President when they are in the same party? Pathetic. Just pathetic.

Reid suuuure found an awful lot of spine, awfully quickly.

I'd be skeptical too, Obama

I'm beginning to wonder if this fetishization of Olympia Snowe reveals something deeper. I have no idea what that thing may be, but perhaps the White House has done some kind of horse-trading with Snowe on this particular issue in order to gain support in some other area?

It's just a random thought, but honestly, the single-minded pursuit of Snowe simply makes little sense. When you have Howard Fineman, for cryin' out loud, telling you you're going to far, well, you know something's out of whack.