been different version has have been announced when you lose key persons like that can you rebuild a coalition. i don t think so. i don t think that the democrats have democratic votes in the senate to get anything big done and i can guarantee you that republican strategists are dying for the democrats to go into the midterm elections turning it into a referendum on a vast new sweeping energy tax scheme, you know in the teeth of a really nasty recession. all throughout obama s biggest problem was all throughout the debate on healthcare everyone kept saying one healthcare is done he s going to pivot to jobs and the economy, if they go with this pie in the sky cap and trade stuff instead of pivoting to jobs in the economy through this summer while at the same time not fixing the hole in the gulf of mexico, it will be even more disastrous. i think jonah is onto something. i think the smart play for the president and the democrats in