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From Ezra Klein, on the likely course of healthcare reform:
I once heard an activist say that leadership is the process of managing your constituency’s disappointment. If that’s accurate, then the next few months are going to offer ample opportunities for leadership.
Yep. The opt-out public option is almost certainly toast, and we’ll end up instead with something closer to Olympia Snowe’s trigger idea — assuming we even end up with that much. And there’s no telling what other amendments are going to get tacked on and then make it through the final conference report. Whatever happens, though, it’s not going to be pretty. Watching sausage getting manufactured never is.
