President Obama's decision to delay the departure of his overseas trip is a tacit - and utterly unsurprising - admission that the Democrats do not have the necessary votes in the House to pass the Senate bill.

The obvious question is whether a 72-hour charm offensive by the President will be enough to save the day. It's hard to say, and we won't know anything for sure until members of the House do what they get paid to do.  However, the President has been putting on the full court press for three weeks now, and the results do not appear to be terribly impressive. So the President's decision has a Copenhagen-esque feel to it, though as a political matter he may not have had much of a choice.

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