When you start losing your own committee members...
 

you really know you are in trouble.

"The whole process was so haphazard that at one point during the
committee mark-up Barbara Mikulski, the Democrat from Maryland,
declared: "Giving me language on little pieces of paper on which I'm
going to commit the sacred fortunes and honor of the United States for
decades, this is not the way to go. We can't do this on the backs of
envelopes."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...879872972.html

Two sentences sum the whole debate up nicely.

"Meanwhile, President Obama has been saying that critics are
"misrepresenting" his proposals. But who's to know what's reality and
what's a myth when the public and Members of Congress aren't able to
read a bill that would restructure one-seventh of our economy."

Damn good point wouldn't you say?