a rare moment of candor

“What you are observing is a continuation of where we have been for a doggone long time,” he said. “The trouble is you all are looking for news and there ain’t no news.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), via New York Times.

I'm a bit skeptical that health-care legislation will be on the President's desk by the end of the year. Discussion is just now turning from boilerplate to details (maybe). Between the progressives and blue dog (blue cross?) dems in the House, and the "necessity" of bipartisan agreement in the Senate, plenty of competing interests have the power to get something concrete out of this deal.

Hopefully the White House can effectively keep Congress from doing what it would like the most: nothing at all. For the time being, though, we all are looking for news... and there ain't no news.