Yeah, you're right. But the impression I was left with, from the comments of both Smiley and Scarborough, was that the President should stop pussy-footing around trying to get a bi-partisan bill with the GOP leadership and focus his efforts to get the Democrats in line. Bayh, Pelosi, Waxman and McCaskill are Democrats, of course, and the point the commentators seemed to be making was that President Obama is not likely to make any further progress with attempts at bi-partisanship with the GOP and should simply play hardball to whip all the Democrats in line to pass a bill with the elements which he desires. What I did seem to hear both commentators saying is that if he expects to get a bill passed in a timely manner, he'll need to whip those of his own party into shape, like the examples they used of how LBJ used to do it. Sorry if I left a different impression with my post.