For Democrats, It's Make-Or-Break Time

mcclatchydc.com — Politically speaking, Democratic lawmakers basically have two choices: They can pass health reform this spring and spend the rest of the campaign year touting all the historic good stuff; or they can do nothing and spend the rest of the year defending that. In other words, they can choose to be proactive and upbeat, or they can choose to be timid and downbeat. The latter is no way to win. Yet that's the route Democrats took in 1994.

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