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...another's wounds from the bruising town halls that dominated their August recess. And if they weren't unhappy before, few of the survivors of the summer of discontent are now in a mood to deal with the controversial, politically perilous legislation to reform the nation's health-care system...
...people are engaging and expressing themselves, but I had a guy sleeping on the sidewalk in front of my office for a week," he says. "It's important that the debate be healthy - one with structure, not destruction - where we debate issues, not urban myths." (See more about health care...
...attention being paid to the painstaking negotiating process that is under way in the Senate, the House now holds as much, if not more, risk for health-care reform. Already, 23 moderate Democrats have said they will not vote for any of the three bills on the table. Representative Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat and a leading member of the Blue Dogs, the fiscally conservative House Dems, said this week that he would not vote for any bill that includes a public plan. If there was one major casualty of the talk of death panels, Nazi comparisons and screaming matches...
...have to strong-arm vulnerable freshmen and sophomore lawmakers to vote for the bill in order to pass it - a big gamble in an uncertain electoral atmosphere. So skittish are a few vulnerable Democrats that they are actually considering skipping President Obama's much-touted speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district Democrats who are now gun-shy, regardless of what is in the bill," says Charlie Cook, editor...
...public plan, since the provision is all but sure to be dropped in the Senate. Republicans have already been celebrating the Democrats' passage of a bill to address global warming earlier this summer. The Senate has yet to act on it, and given the current atmosphere, poisoned by health-care, the environment bill may never see final passage. The GOP calls the climate-change bill a massive new energy tax on consumers and likens it to the doomed BTU energy tax that was passed at the urging of President Bill Clinton in his first term and cost several Democrats their...