Harry Reid the hero?

I'm not buying it. We've never been fiercely anti-Reid on this blog, but this health care bill has been a disaster. Reid ceded too much authority to the President, who then turned around and did nothing until the bill was gutted, then the White House suddenly woke up. It's been a comedy of errors all around. Yes, kudos for getting 60 votes. But the real trick is getting 60 votes for something good, or even something great. We'll find out more about the details of the final Senate deal in the coming days, but the bill looks nothing like the President promised, or we had hoped. You don't get politician of the year in my book for that unless it's one of those evil TIME magazine mirror-image person of the years they do from time to time.

I do agree with one point in the article. It is a titanic achievement.