Perhaps you saw this bit of good news (pending a potential el-foldo from our rubber-spined Senate Majority Leader) on health care from Harry Reid yesterday, in which he told Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus to stop "chasing Republican votes" in his attempts to get a bipartisan bill out of his committee:
Reid, whose leadership is considered crucial if President Barack Obama is to deliver on his promise of enacting health care reform this year, offered the directive to Baucus through an intermediary after consulting with Senate Democratic leaders during Tuesday morning’s regularly scheduled leadership meeting. Baucus was meeting with Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) Tuesday afternoon to relay the information.
According to Democratic sources, Reid told Baucus that taxing health benefits and failing to include a strong government-run insurance option of some sort in his bill would cost 10 to 15 Democratic votes; Reid told Baucus it wasn’t worth securing the support of Grassley and at best a few additional Republicans.
What does this have to do with Wyden, specifically? {below}