onyx, it’s more than ideological. As they stare down the barrel of the gun that is the 2010 elections, the Dems will want to get some goodies like the “moderate” Senators got. It’s their last chance at any decent pork for a long, long time.
Even if they manage to keep the Senate bill intact ideologically, they won’t be able to resist the pork. They’ll stretch the CBO tricks to the limit. Like a flock of vultures, they’ll tear the corpse apart.
You are right that Obama has made this the be-all and end-all of his presidency and every Democrat is treating Obama as if he were a retarded child, needing some victory of some kind to help his self-esteem.
He is an adult and he can just let his presidency be defined by his military success, uh, his foreign policy, uh, his leadership, uh, well, something.
AmishDude!!!!! Is this really YOU?
Oh yeah, you’re right. The CBO won’t know what hit ‘em.
That non-partisan director likely hates the democrats by now..lol.
Like you, I can’t see House democrats letting the senate bill pass without piling on its own pork.
Here’s to townhalls between January 2 and January 17, 2010!