After spending the past year pushing his fellow Democrats in Congress to pass his idea of health care reform...After months of arm twisting and bribing the last reluctant Democrats in the Senate to vote yes for Obamacare...After weeks of behind closed door meetings with House and Senate leaders trying to craft something/anything that would give him a legislative win on his top domestic priority...Just days after he told the audience at a Martha Coakley rally, "If you were fired up in the last election I need you more fired up in this election." President Barack Obama is telling other Democrats not to "jam" a health care overhaul bill through Congress.

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By now everyone who pays attention to such things knows Republican Scott Brown has won the special election in Massachusetts. He will take the seat formerly held by the late Senator Ted Kennedy thereby ending the 60 vote stranglehold Democrats had on that legislative body. What will happen next regarding health care reform, cap & trade and other items on the Obama agenda remains to be seen. There are ways the no longer super yet still majority party can get around a minority filibuster and the will of the American people but they risk the ire of voters by doing so.

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