A top Obama ally predicted Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that Democrats will lose their congressional majority in next year’s midterm elections if they fail to put a health-care reform bill on President Obama’s desk.
I think he meant to say the Democrats would lose 40+ seats if they pass anything close to what’s being considered. Otherwise, they should hold their losses to 15-25 seats. Which is to be expected given the number of freshmen in conservative districts, the disadvantage presidential incumbency bestows upon his Congress, and the general mood of the public given an over-reaching and corrupt People’s House.
Incidentally, had Obama shown real leadership here — or better yet, left the issue alone — the Democrats would likely have held about even come 2010.
So “The Great Pontificator” has managed to create a scenario where the Democrats are screwed if they make Health Care happen and they are more screwed if they don’t. If that’s not enough, he’s also created the conditions to ensure that all the Republicans will get all the credit for the opposition without doing a thing. What a perfect little knot that is.
This isnt an accident, a one time ‘faux pas’ on the part of a neophyte politician with hardly any work history involving the passage of legislation, oh no, this sort of discrediting self destruction can only come from the mind of man. Not just any man, but an evil genius, a “napoleon” of crime.
I’m speaking of the nefarious Karl Rove.
I think there is still a way for many lib Dems to hold onto their seats even if they DON’T pass anything that satisfies the mega lefties.
Just delay, delay, delay, and don’t do anything meaningful until after the primaries. All the while, talk about one payer, full leftist wet dream reform.
Then once they’re on the fall ballot, pass a bill that satisfies the moderate D’s and I’s. And blame their change of heart on Republican pressure and the need to cooperate with moderate D’s.
The R’s got away with that exact tactic for 2-3 election cycles before their extreme voters figured out the ploy.
“pass a bill that satisfies the moderate D’s and I’s.”
This would merely be a softer version of government control of health care. Any sane person should be adamantly opposed. It would be comparable to jumping off a sixty story building instead of a hundred story one. In many respects, this is an issue where a so-called moderate position really doesn’t exist.