One of the things I’m not understanding is the approach.  I’m a big backer of reform.  The part I’m not getting is why we are trying to boil the ocean, eat the elephant in one bite, or throw long.  Did I miss any cheap metaphors?

I sense many feel the same.  It’s not the reform which doesn’t have the support, it’s the approach.  That nobody is able to to summarize the reform package on a single slide makes people think it’s because they don’t have a good enough grasp of what they are trying to accomplish.  That, plus the idea of a Big Bang theory of reform is what is halting the effort.

Break it down into manageable, explainable pieces.  Demonstrate you can successfully accomplish one peice and you will have support for the next piece.  Do it all at once and fail and reform is done.