“The Won is going to run to the center so that the Progressives can retain Congress in 2010.”

You should go and read some of the commentary this morning on sites like DU and Kos. Kos himself is now calling for the bill to be killed by progressives; he and the progressive caucus are deeming it a total sellout to the insurance industry. (it isn’t, but that’s the problem with getting so far out on the edge of an issue) Also, there are now public calls on most “progressive” sites to oppose any Senator who votes for this bill. Yes, crazy, isn’t it?

The real point is this – the Dems are already in trouble, since the right is energized. Any move back to the center will not possibly be enough to cool off their ardor, and yet also will serve only to demoralize the leftwing base even more. A move to the center could cause Obama’s numbers to drop into the 30′s, if not the 20′s, because the right won’t come back while the left would leave.

What a strategic genius! He and Harry Reid have managed to energize the right while at the same time demoralizing and enraging their entire base. And they’ve left themselves no avenues to walk back from this except admitting defeat, scrapping the project and starting over from scratch. Which they don’t have the nerve or the foresight to do.

Time for a Real Men of Genius commercial.