You are right about some of the Democratic members of Congress Aunty. Baucus, Conrad, Lincoln in the Senate and the "Blue Dogs" in the House are definitely the ones holding reform legislation up.

Todd is talking about the opinion of the American electorate though mostly. While the R's in Congress don't wield a lot of power to stop a bill from being passed... the right-wing noise machine, with the help, blessing and financing of the insurance and pharma conglomerates and the Republican Party is doing it's abject best to sway public opinion with their campaign of misinformation, propaganda and out and out LIES.

Because a good many Americans are stupid and easily manipulated due to their prejudice and biases, this campaign has been somewhat successful. Because it has... Democrats in red States and in conservative, rural districts have been afraid to support reform for fear of losing the next election.

So... even though the R's are the minority in government, they've still been able to have quite an impact.

I think it's high time that the progressives in this country start to speak out like the conservatives have and get this reform legislation, complete with a robust public option passed!