At a superficial level, the impasse over financial reform looks an awful lot like the early days of the health care fight, with Republicans and Democrats meeting privately to reach an elusive, perhaps impossible compromise. And we all remember how that story ended. But peer closely and the two stories are different in so many ways, politically and philosophically, that it’s hard to imagine this turns into health care redux.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=127390