8/3/09- TWD's Agenda For The Day: Now It Goes on The Road

If it already wasn't on the road, health care debate is now on the road. The House is in recess, and the Senate soon will be after they handle some business and vote on Sotomayor (I think on Tuesday) .

And already, the hits, attacks, realness, and craziness of this debate is going down now on the road.

If you want to know why members of Congress don't want to take the Pledge to vote down a bill that doesn't have a strong public plan, Mazie Hirono finally says it out loud:

Ultimately, Hirono said she was a progressive who firmly believes in the public option, but that she was also someone who counted votes and that the White House would be pressuring them to make a deal.

The stakes grow each and every day.