We’ve got the early reactions from senators to last night’s announcement of a tentative deal on a health care reform compromise.
Reading the tea leaves, it looks like a lot of senators, especially among the 10 who were conducting this latest round of negotiations, have reached that stage where more than anything else you want to get the deal done. At that point in negotiations, everyone has resigned themselves to the fact that they are not going to walk away with a big score. They know they are going to lose something, the issue is how much.
Last night, Sen. Jay Rockefeller told reporters, “You’re going to find nobody who’s happy with everything.”
Psychologically that’s a turning point.
