Tim Fernholz asks what Sen. Mike Enzi is doing in the middle of the Senate health care negotiations:
Health-reform experts were all asking the same question last week: Why the heck is Mike Enzi one of six senators crafting the health-care bill?
Enzi, a Republican and the senior senator from Wyoming, is among the small group of Senate Finance Committee members negotiating health-care reform. Though the health-care bill from the Finance Committee will be one among many, and neither the most effective reform nor the most liberal, it does hold the promise of attracting the most Republican (and conservative Democratic) votes, an important goal for the administration and Senate leadership.