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Bacchus Compromise Bill draws enthusiastic support of Senator Max Bacchus. That was

political analyst Nate Silver summing up the response to Senator Max Bacchus's

much-balleyhood Compromise Bill about what?

Healthcare reform. Indeed. Very good. Healthcare. This week, the Senator Max Bacchus,

Democrat of Montana, finally revealed the amazing healthcare compromise that he

has been working on all year, the one that was going to save us all and unite

all the warring parties. As it turns out, measured against expectations, it was

the phantom menace of legislative proposals. However, Bacchus did achieve one of

his goals. He was able to unify both parties, liberal Democrats, and

conservative Republicans, both loathe it. In fact, at his press conference

announcing his plan, Bacchus couldn't get a single other Senator to stand next to

him. It wasn't bipartisan. It was Sans partisan. It was Charlie Brown-Ash.

Yeah, it was. But it occurred to us. Maybe he's going about this the wrong way.

There is, in fact, we now know a proven way to get a group of argumentative

egotists to work hard over a short period of time to accomplish something

difficult. A reality show. Call it project healthcare. You said all the

senators in the finance committee to come up with their own plans and you send

in Tim Gunn to tell them, make it work. By the end, you'd have Senator Bacchus

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