In the hours and minutes before Republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, House Democratic leadership sounded resilient, even optimistic notes about the possibility of passing health care reform anyhow. But that puts them at odds with their rank and file members, particularly progressives, who, based on press reports and interviews conducted as returns were coming in, but before the race was called, now have a hard time seeing an endgame.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=131730