If Brown wins in Mass (I still think it’s unlikely) and the Dems keep pursuing Health Care, they are truly suicidal (politically speaking). But they will have achieved their goal. Nationalised health care will be a reality and there will be no going back.
>>If Brown wins in Mass (I still think it’s unlikely) and the Dems keep pursuing Health Care, they are truly suicidal (politically speaking). But they will have achieved their goal. Nationalised health care will be a reality and there will be no going back.<<
If Brown wins in Mass, Pelosi is going to have a nearly impossible task getting the House to vote for the anything like the current health bill. The Senate won’t matter anymore. She only had a 3 vote margin the first time around, one of those votes was Cho from LA, a Republican who was getting a free pass on his vote because she already had a majority, and the abortion provisions in the Senate bill will have to change to get Stupak, et al.
Now top that off with the realization that even Massachusetts voters are hacked off enough about the direction of the country that they’ve put a Republican in the Senate and there is no way Pelosi holds her majority together (if Brown wins, that is.) The Senate isn’t where the problem is (because we all know they’ll just change the rules if that’s what’s needed for passage.) The big problem the Dems have is with the House.
Anyway, that’s the way I see it. Hope I’m right.