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If this fails, Obama will pretty much be over. A lame duck president in his first year. There is little chance his Cap and Trade will pass and with the ill-will he has forged with the American people, the chances of keeping the majority in the House and Senate is low.
If Barack Obama hoped to rescue his vision of a health-care system overhaul with his wan effort in the New York Times, a key member of the Senate Democratic Caucus threw a bucket of cold water on those hopes this morning. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) told a television audience that the pursuit of a public option for coverage was a “wasted effort” that would kill any hope of passage in the upper chamber. Obama, said Conrad, should exercise more humility in approaching a government role in American health care — and even Obama’s key Cabinet member agrees
