Quote of the Day, doomed to repeat it edition

Giving up on the idea that’s been your primary preoccupation for the last year-- and, by the way, a primary focus of the last presidential campaign--is not exactly a way to challenge these conclusions.

You'll have less political capital, making it hard to deliver progress on the economy or anything else. As for reelection, well, ask the congressional Democrats running in 1994 how failing to deliver health care reform worked for them.

--TNR's Jonathan Cohn in an open letter to House Democrats.