While it is definitely too early to be issuing report cards, when the dust finally settles on health care reform, I’m finding hard to believe that Nancy Pelosi won’t be receiving an A-Plus. She’s been stellar throughout this whole process. I feel like we might just get something good out of the Senate, too, but it’s much harder to give Harry Reid any credit for that. He’s had a harder job and a shifting landscape (in terms of how many healthy members he’s had), but his leadership has been lacking. At best, he’s known how to get out of the way and not foul up the glacial progress by taking arbitrary and meaningless lines in the sand. If the Senate does something positive, I’ll be more inclined to give the administration and the party activists the credit than I will be to give it to Reid. But, who knows? Maybe Reid can ace the final exam and bring up his grade.
