The Wall Street Journal has a report on a speech Tom Daschle is supposed to give in Denver today, which is highly anticipated in the policy community because Obama’s health care czar will be discussing the push for reform. There’s been hope among some conservatives that Obama’s hands would be tied as a result of spending on the economic crisis, thus limiting the amount of money available for a major government expansion in health care. But unsuprisingly, according to the WSJ, Daschle is exploiting the economic crisis by arguing that it will only reinforce the need to do something about health care, highlighting the pressure that health care costs put on businesses. Also, in keeping with the idea of trying to mobolize the grassroots as Obama did during the campaign, Daschle “will suggest that Americans hold holiday-season house parties to brainstorm over how best to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.”