Mark, I don’t think either the House or Senate bill have a chance of passage. The only thing that might pass is some sort of compromise that blends approaches from each. I much like Kate’s alternative: a proposal that uses the House bill as a base, and adds on from there. That would not be the House bill as it stands, but something else. I don’t see a lot of traction in splitting the party into a “Bush-Kennedy” wing and a House Republican wing. If we can’t get the two wings working together again, this bird won’t fly.

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Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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