The media isn’t interested in health care policy because reporting about policy is hard. They are interested in the boxing match. The boxing match is easy.
Republicans are not interested in policy or even in helping the country, they are only interested in the boxing match. The only person in the health care reform debate trying to work in good faith is Barack Obama and that only works when you are working with a good faith partners.
Meanwhile the media reports that the Republicans are winning the boxing match. I only hope Obama decides to lace up his gloves before he gets knocked out of the ring.
When and how Barack Obama decides to put down his bipartisan dream is the question of the next 12 months. My vote is for “now” and “by opening an unholy can of whip ass on the GOP.”