Somewhere in the White House or Capitol Hill, I imagine, is a whiteboard that looks like this:

August recess

September

Columbus Day

Thanksgiving

Christmas

New Year's

State of the Union

Valentine's Day

St. Patrick's Day

And now passing health care reform by St. Patrick's Day, which is next Wednesday, seems impossible. But only by a little bit.

Karen Tumulty has all the details over at Swampland, but the gist is this: Assuming reformers get a favorable score on the reconciliation package from the Congressional Budget Office in the next few days--and one should never make assumptions about the CBO, even though a favorable score seems likely--the House will vote on the Senate health care reform bill sometime late...