Tuesday Morning Open Thread

I'm off to Chicago today for Thanksgiving with the family. Chris is, I'm sure, planning some incredible French feast in Paris, that we'll hopefully be hearing about, and seeing pictures of, soon enough. Otherwise, it's not as slow a week as it normally would be this time of year in Washington. The health care reform effort is in serious flux at the moment.

Conservative Democrats are still more willing than the rest of Democrats to threaten to walk unless they get their way, which generally means that they will get their way. Senator Reid could still make the conservative Ds irrelevant by going the route of reconciliation. Then there's President Obama. One hopes, but doubts, that he's working behind the scenes to fight for a stronger, rather than weaker, bill. It seems that his staff wants anything passed, regardless of what. And far be it for the President to step up and show some initiative in support of doing more, rather than less. But hope springs eternal.