Democrats don’t care, I believe that they are on a full blown suicide mission to get this passed, regardless of the consequences to the party in 2010, that fact alone should scare the living hell out of people.
For what is in this thing, that the public overwhelmingly hates, would cause a Democrat to knowing cast a political career ending yes vote.
It just don’t make much rational sense at all
Mark Steyn probably said it best in one of his columns and his recent subbing for El Rushbo: that the dems know from the Euroweenie example that once government has life-and-death power over us they will hold all the cards and there will be no going back. If government is all powerful then the Party of Government will be in the driver’s seat at least 95% of the time from then on.
The dems know they will suffer short-term electoral pain for this but they expect the pubbies to blow their comeback as usual and soon accept their permanent minority status in perpetuity.
That’s what Steyn says and I agree. I add that all the dem congresscritters were almost certainly given elaborate promises from Obama, the dem powerplayers and the liberal moneybags donors that they will be set up for life as soon as they are booted by the voters next year. Cushy jobs in the 110 new healthcare bureaucracies and the Soros organizations as well as board positions in all the newly government-acquired businesses.
They’ll all be well taken care of.
Rats follow polls just like all politicians. They undoubtedly know they’ll take a hit in November over this, among other things. They also know they are playing cards with a marked deck and the ace up their sleeves goes by one name: amnesty.
I think, in the grand scheme of things, the democrats believe that they will indeed lose seats, but not enough to change their majority.