My prediction on the press : Dems won't be able to get their members to lock arms & walk off the cliff in obvious defiance of the American people.

From The New York Times:

Democrats said the Republicans had forced a lengthy debate on the Defense Department bill, in part because they wanted to block the health bill, which is next in line for a Senate vote. Republicans said Democrats were trying to jam the health bill through the Senate before anyone had read its new provisions.

Several Democratic senators said they were rethinking Mr. Reid’s Christmas deadline for action on the health care bill.

“Why are we rushing to get this done?” [Senator Olympia J. Snowe, a Maine Republican being courted by the White House,] asked. “We should take a pause, cool the passions and work deliberately through a number of these issues.”

[Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said:] “There’s a good chance the Democrats will not be able to get their members to lock arms and walk off the cliff in obvious defiance of the American people, who are virtually screaming at us, ‘Please do not pass this bill.’ ”