Initially, I was not so discouraged by Scott Brown's victory in the MA Senate special election this week.  I figured Obama would get the House to pass the Senate's version of health care reform - a flawed bill, for sure, but far better than nothing.  The President would sign it in the coming weeks and attention could turn to financial reform and jobs creation.

Instead, the President and House Speaker Pelosi are indicating that the House will not pass the Senate version.  Obama is talking about a more modest bill, which would probably have to be quite limited in its scope and impact to pass the Senate.  But Senate Majority Leader Reid seems to be more interested in jobs legislation than more battles on health care.

This is starting to feel like deja vu.

I had hoped we'd see a little fight from Obama.