Take one for the team

Healthcare | The shape of healthcare in America rests on whether Nancy Pelosi can convince enough Democrats to cast a potentially career-ending vote | Edward Lee Pitts

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WASHINGTON—In a statue-lined busy Capitol Hill hallway just off the House floor, Congressman Allen Boyd, a moderate Democrat from Florida, outlined to a news camera all the reasons—repeated ad nauseam by lawmakers during the past year—why the nation's healthcare system needs changing. "So you are ready to support Obama's revised plan?" the television journalist interrupted. A larger-than-life statue of early 20th-century humorist Will Rogers, a slight smirk on his face, stood watching in a corner as Boyd replied, "Well, now I didn't say that."

Will Rogers, in top political satire mode, once said, "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." Those words still ring true nearly a century later: It is Democrats against Democrats here as the healthcare debate moves toward a conclusion.

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