Still working on health care

Struggling terribly to have some kind of legacy (translation: more control over our everyday lives and permanent Democrat control of the Congress and Senate), Obama has summoned his Republican colleagues to a health care summit. It appears Massachusetts is still a specter in the back of the room for a lot of Dems, however. Barone has the story:

My colleague Mark Tapscott cites an anonymous quote by a House Democratic leader from a Politico story on why the House Democratic leadership can’t muster the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill. “‘You just need to twist enough arms to pass the Senate bill.’ You can twist arms if you’ve got a handful of them to twist. You can’t twist over 100 arms. There needs to be some reality check there.” Mark takes that as an indication that House Democrats are short 100 votes of passing the Senate bill.