Bad News Harry Reid.
Mrs. Pelosi's remarks on the secret and stubborn healthcare pow-wow -- especially her empty rhetoric of "common ground"-- reveal the fact that there is a collective slow-down in the monomaniacal talks between the House and the Senate. The cause of the slow-down is Massachusetts. Everyone at the White House is watching the polls from Boston and the early reports of Scott Brown leading in absentee ballots, and leading with 20% of the Democrats voting Brown. The Brown surge gives plenty of room for those in the healthcare talks to refue to cooperate. Why give Mrs. Pelosi anything when Brown is about to wreck the the Senate's 6th vote? If healthcare fails, let it fail without concessions from liberals or conservatives in the Dem caucus. Also, there is a sweet argument that the Democrats on the Hill want Brown to win and are stalling the White House pow-wow as they wait for Righty. A Coakley loss will wreck the process, sink the bill, and free everyone of the bad news of Harry Reid. Also, a Coakley loss will relieve Boston of the burden of electing a junior senator who does not understand (or want to understand) the Red Sox Nation. The Curt Schilling flub is incomprehensible. The smear on a flier -- paid for by the state Democrats -- that Brown wants rape victims abused the more was not only clumsy, it also gave Brown an easy counter-punch -- almost as if Coakley has been ordered to take a dive? Nah. There is also the strangely frail and snobby remark by John Kerry,
"This race is do or die in our state," U.S. Sen.John Kerry told voters in an e-mail. "We have to stand with Martha as she tries to win this seat."
A Brown win in Massachusetts on Tuesday would not stop Heath Care in and of itself. The Drudge headline this morning reads, "Dem Threat: Senate Can Pass Health Care with 51 Votes". I'm sure there are also other maneuvers they can use to get it done. Bottom line: There is nothing Republicans can do to derail the process. The only people who can derail it is Democrats themselves.
Now, it may well be, as John suggests, that the Dems themselves are starting to feel a bit uneasy with the Health Care Albatross tied around their collective necks; that they're looking for an excuse to bail. I'm sure this is true for some if not most. But the vast majority of them are politburo lemmings. They'll do what the leadership tells them. And I don't see the leadership buckling. For them it's never been about health care. It's been about control and wealth re-distribution, revolution, revenge and punishment. It's a maniacal mindset that knows not compromise or compassion. It is determined to wreak havoc for havoc’s sake no matter who gets hurt.
I often hear what the Democrats are doing as described as 'suicidal'. - Exactly!
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