Follow this link to the story in the Los Angeles Times about how Harry Reid shepherded the health care reform bill through the Senate.

It is scary to realize what must happen to get a bill passed through the Senate. I am thinking that the liberal ploy of insisting on a public option worked really well.  The people trying to stop this bill probably thought that keeping out the public option was enough to kill the bill.  They probably rested when that option was removed and the early Medicare sign-up was removed.  Luckily the liberals had pretended this was enough to be a show stopper, so the killers stopped there.  Then the liberals fooled them by voting for the resulting bill.

This reminds me of a principle or parenting that I have always pondered.  Children need to rebel against their parents.  So you need to insist on something that is not too consequential so that they will be able to rebel and yet survive their teen years.

The only humor in the Senate process was the part that Charlie Brown and Nelson Rockefeller played.