Obama on health-care summit: Let’s play nice or else I’ll nuke you with reconciliation; Reid: We’ll pass a bill within 60 days

An efficient bit of political theater, capped by his insistence that “I don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater.” It’s a little late for that, champ:
It is now clear that the “summit” the president has called for February 25 is not intended to consider different approaches to health care financing, but rather to create an illusion of momentum that might just lull disoriented congressional Democrats into ramming the health care bill through the budget reconciliation process… READ MORE...