Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has joined Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) in warning leaders not to try to push a revised health care reform bill through the Senate before newly elected Republican Scott Brown arrives.

McCaskill said Wednesday morning that "people out there" believe the agenda is "going too far, too fast" and that it would be a "huge mistake" for Democrats to force a vote on a new bill in the Senate before the new senator from Massachusetts is seated.

"As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast," McCaskill told POLITICO.

At the same time, however, McCaskill defended the administration's approach, saying the president inherited an economic recession that he couldn't resolve with "little itty-bitty baby steps."

"You take the big things we had to do, as related to the economy, and you combine that with the frustration of the American people and a big health care bill that frankly, because it was big and complicated, it lent itself to this almost virulent misinformation that got out there," McCaskill said. "The more those seeds planted, the more they flourished in that environment, and I think now we've got to hunker down and be realistic about what we can accomplish and certainly realize that if we don't pay attention to what the voters say in Massachusetts, then I think we do so at the peril of our party's effectiveness."

But she added that Obama is keeping his campaign promise by trying to pass a health care bill.

"You know what this president tried to do, which is different, he did what he said he was going to do," McCaskill said. "If you look at the steps he's taken, he's trying to keep his word to the voters that elected him."

I want a chastity belt on this man. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don't trust this guy. This one could end with a dead intern. I'm just saying. It could end with a dead intern.

Randall Terry on Scott Brown:

I - like many other political activists - am enjoying the moment of "Ted Kennedy's seat" going to a Republican. The problem is that Scott Brown supports Roe vs. Wade....
We need to replace Scott Brown as soon as we can with a true defender of babies' lives, not a phony who supports their murder.

Doesn't he realize he's supposed to have his pom poms at the ready?

RT @JeffreyYoung_HC "Senate Budget Chair Conrad cautiously open to using reconciliation for #hcr bill." Whoa!
about 6 hours ago from web

Reading over the options: Snowe, re-assuring Barney Frank, waiting till Brown is seated is like water torture, and a magnification of the debacle that led up to this debacle.

Fact is: man at the top isn't up to the job. Intense pressure might get him to budge from the safest possible course, but I doubt it.

This is a presidency scared shi#less with majorities in both houses. The kubuki isn't even worth watching. Republicans are worse, but at this point I'm not sure that matters.

When I perused my photos, this one made me laugh out loud.  What a metaphor for the Democrats...the car that says high performance, but is actually just a motorless hot wheel....it's even a green car, which just adds to the ironic humor.  All I need to do is photoshop Obama turned around and waving from the driver's seat and the pic is complete.