Here's a simple question. What are President Obama and Senator Reid doing to tell Leiberman and Nelson to shape up or ship out? Combined, Reid and Obama have immense power. Are they using it?
Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend....They only have power when you give them power. And you give them power when you're afraid to crack heads.
Final passage is in jeopardy, even after the chamber's historic 60-39 vote Saturday night to begin debate.
"I don't want a big-government, Washington-run operation that would undermine the ... private insurance that 200 million Americans now have," said Sen. Ben Nelson, a conservative Nebraska Democrat....
"I don't want to fix the problems in our health care system in a way that creates more of an economic crisis," said Lieberman.
