Later On

I don’t get it. The Center for American Progress:

With congressional leaders confirming that the House and the Senate will fail to meet President Obama’s deadline to pass health care bills before the August recess, special interest lobbyists are celebrating their success in delaying some of Obama’s key health care initiatives. Following "the right’s delay and kill strategy," one influential lobbyist told The Hill that they hope that "creating delays" will allow opponents of reform to seize the "opportunity to outright kill a proposal" if negotiations were to then lose momentum, echoing a memo by GOP strategist Alex Castellanos that urged Republicans to "slow down" the health reform debate. In addition to health care delays, lobbyists for the financial industry have also succeeded in forcing House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) to stall financial regulatory reform legislation. Incredibly, many of the financial institutions spending millions on lobbying are "major recipients of cash form the Troubled Asset Relief Program." Having succeeded in slowing down health care and regulatory reform in Congress, special interests are now transitioning to "go for the kill," with a multi-million dollar campaign to sink the legislation as members of Congress return home for the August recess. A key component of the lobbyists’ plan is to generously dole out campaign contributions to moderate Democrats who are best positioned to block reform.