MSNBC's First Read on what was good and what went wrong.
Of course Obama listening to Pelosi and ignore Emanuel's plea to scale HCR down.
But, we lost months, the goodwill of the public and dare I say our super majority because of our pursuit of bipartisanship.
What DIDN’T prove to work for Obama and the Democrats was allowing the Senate (and especially the Senate Finance Committee) to take as long as it did
Bipartisanship that was never bound to happen as Ezra Klein notes
Nancy Pelosi kept pressing the White House to stop dealing with the Republicans. "It’s never going to happen," a Democratic official quoted her as saying. "Grassley’s just going to wait you out and then pull the rug out from under you."
He ends
This post could also be called "why you should listen to Nancy Pelosi."
So why do Democrats still write bills that are closer to the right than to the left?