Graveyard Whistle.   

Spoke professionals following the Massachusetts special results, and the consensus was that Mrs. Pelosi and Steny Hoyer will now advocate the House votes on the Senate bill unchanged option in order to deliver the healthcare reform bill to POTUS to sign. Barney Frank appeared to mitigate this option late in the evening by putting out a statement that the Hill should start over, but there is no certainty that Barney Frank wasn't hedging his remarks. The Paul Kirk will vote on the bill option is gone. The Senate reconciliation option is possible. John Fund reminds that the GOP can and will shut down the Senate if Harry Reid tries a 51 vote bill.  No certainty that the 51 votes are there for the Democrats.  Anthony Weiner on the cable spoke before the Massachusetts results were in, and he mentioned that the White House healthcare negotiation the hours before the polls closed had "a whiff of whistling past the graveyard."  Perhaps the quiet at the White House makes adults deaf to the voters until they are confronted with the result of an insurgency.  Who lost Massachusetts?  Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols, the Nation, point to the Obama team, especially Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, as the Wall Street toadies who weakned Obama's message and left Coakley vulnerable to populist reaction.