[ATLDiver]

If we’re lucky, we can make sure what they pass has the least amount of effect on us as possible. The time for the republican leadership to step up is long past, if they’re smart they latch onto this popular opposition and ride it but we are talking the stupid party here.

[tired_old_conservative]

The problem they'll run into is the tendency for all this to be reported like a football game. That worked to their advantage when they were momentarily ahead after the big Massachusetts fumble. But now, if the Dems do get this passed, the initial coverage will be all about Obama’s thrilling two-minute drill.

A long way of saying the Republican leadership can't just take it for granted that public opposition will pay off for them. They have to work smart and hard from passage all the way through November to earn that.

[Kenny]

They’re only stupid when it comes to cheating, lying, and manipulating. They don’t know how to do any of the above nor do they know how to handle it from the opposition. Not that I’d want them to resort to those tactics but that’s where we get trounced.