Okay. We've been over every tiny detail of the policy and politics of HCR getting passed. We know what it isn't, we know what it is, and we know what it says about President Obama--and, to be fair, Nancy Pelosi and (to a lesser degree) Harry Reid--that this thing actually managed to get across.
For months--since DeMint's delightfully prophetic "Waterloo" speech, really--we've been talking about what a disaster it would be for the Obama Presidency if HCR were scuttled, or if what ended up passing was such a minor bill that trumpeting it as "reform" would just make things worse for Democrats.
All this, we know.
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