What a difference a day makes

With Republican Scott Brown's victory in the special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy' seat, the Democrats lost their filibuster proof sixty seat majority in the Senate, the President and Congressional leadership are re-evaluating the course of health care reform. The President in an interview with ABC News today advised that the Senate should wait for Senator elect Brown to be sworn in before returning to health care reform. The President stated that

I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on.

The Politico reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) echoed the president, saying, “We’re going to wait until the new senator arrives before we do anything on health care." Modern Healthcare reports that

House Democrats planned to meet with disparate factions of their party in order * * * to find a baseline of reforms that could garner enough support to pass in short order.

“I think that’s a reasonable approach,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said.

So we all have some time to reflect.