Slow down Mr. President, Part III -- This action of bypassing Waxman's own committee is an indictment on the process and rush to just pass something.

Slow down Mr. President Part I was a 7-23-09 post entitled "Slow down Mr. President. This is what is wrong with the health care legislation: Pelosi insists that she has the votes to push something through."

Slow down Mr. President Part II was a 7-24-09 post entitled: "Other than having been a big Obama supporter during the campaign, this is sort of where I am: For Public, Obama Didn’t Fill in Health Blanks" [with his press conference this week].

Today's part III is from The New York Times:

Dissension among Democrats flared anew on Friday as a top House Democrat threatened to bypass his own committee to speed passage of a bill to provide health insurance for tens of millions of Americans. But by the end of the day, Democrats said they were trying to patch up their differences.