Tuesday, December 15, 2009

This Deal is Getting Worse All the Time...

Many liberals are worried that health care negotiations have begun to look like this:



It's a reasonable concern. As I said, progressives have very little leverage in this negotiation. It's not just Lieberman who could demand more concessions. It's really any conservative Democrat or moderate Republican willing to negotiate in return for a cloture vote. It sounds like they can have the votes by next week but we're definitely not out of the woods yet...

Via Reason with a hat tip to The Daily Dish

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