adding majority leader will go to lengths to keep the support from the senator from maine. senator reid already setting expectations fairly low for the final product, which is to be delivered from those meetings as well as for his ability to deliver votes. the majority leader pushing back against progressives who want to force conservative members of his party to vote with their party on the public option. public option, something that 77% of the public wants. something for which 51 senators, a majority, are prepared to vote. the majority leader's office saying in a statement, quote, senator reid is focused on crafting a health care bill that will overcome a republican filibuster, stripping democratic senators of their leadership titles is a decision that will be left up to the caucus, not senator reid. in light of this reality, it's unlikely the caucus will ever go along with this idea. then again, it is his job to make them go along. that is why it's called the leadership position. not that we even know who they are, senator reid, allowing any democratic senators now threatening to filibuster or not to block a filibuster to remain anonymous. the so-called silent filibuster of democrats.