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...aura of someone who has been pricked with a pin and now moves through the world partially deflated. He has a thin frame and a slight hunch to his shoulders, and the pugnacious set of his jaw is gone. But that voice - the booming, forceful aspect is still there, even if it's only coming at you from across a desk at his father's real estate firm, where Spitzer now spends his days puttering around before heading home at 6 to make dinner for his daughters. He talks extremely quickly, answers questions with questions ("Have you read Frank Luntz...
...rage toward corrupt bankers seems to course through his body - even when he's on vacation. He recalls a recent trip he took with his daughter to Utah to go skiing (something he often does nowadays). After a day on the slopes, he found himself drinking Scotch and talking to some "Wall Street guys" at the bar: "I looked them in the eye and said, 'You guys aren't worth it. Capital is overcompensated these days. It's un-American, and it's unjust.'" Spitzer thinks it's an outrage that the same bankers who brought down the world economy...
...path to enactment, as it is envisioned now, requires two steps. First, the House would pass the exact bill that cleared the Senate on Christmas Eve - even though it is loaded with provisions that many in the House say they would not accept in a final product. Next, the two chambers would fine-tune that bill with a set of compromises that they would pass under a filibuster-proof procedure known as budget reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes to clear the Senate...
...even if all these pieces fall into place, there's still no assurance that the Democrats can find the votes to pass the bill in any form - especially in the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has virtually no room to maneuver: since her chamber adopted its original measure in November, a death, several retirements and the defection of the bill's lone GOP supporter have cut her five-vote margin to zero. She's facing revolts in her caucus on a number of fronts; dozens of Democrats, for instance, have given notice that they will not accept the Senate's more...
Voting for health care may well end the careers of some House Democrats; their opponents already have attack ads ready. But having come this far, Obama believes, there is something that would be even worse for the Democrats. And that would be to fail to finish...