The Juggernaut Rolls Forward

Looks like Blanche Lincoln is voting to allow the bill to proceed. We're heading to an all or nothing situation for Republicans. Because we dealt ourselves out of the game at the start, this thing either passes more or less as the Dem leadership wishes - or it collapses utterly.

Looks like Blanche Lincoln is voting to allow the bill to proceed. We're heading to an all or nothing situation for Republicans. Because we dealt ourselves out of the game at the start, this thing either passes more or less as the Dem leadership wishes - or it collapses utterly. That latter outcome seems hourly more unlikely. Will this be 1993 in reverse? A Republican strategy of non-negotiation and obstruction ending not in the defeat of a repugnant bill, but in its passage without any of the compromises that a deal-making GOP might have extracted?