The track to power.
Health care is in a tailspin, and even though the President doesn’t know it, more of him on television doesn’t actually change the realities of this bill, and the ugliness that will transmogrify our nation into something much less worthwhile. The Blue Dog Dems, happy to take power under Obama’s new wave of utopia, are now faced with two potential issues:
1) they are actually conservative democrats (thought they were all dead), and they dislike the bill on principle, or
2) they are going to lose their jobs immediately if they vote for it, regardless of their views.
Both doors lead toward staunch resistance from Obama’s own party. No matter how many times the media and their masters on the Left condemn the GOP for not going along on health care, which they have not wavered on, it is the Democrat Party that has the real crisis over health care. They promised to “go it alone” and yet nothing has happened, has it? I wonder why?
The reality is they haven’t the votes even in the House, should the bill get revisited, and are nowhere near (even to 50 votes, by some measures) in the Senate with HR 3200. Even the bastardization of the reconciliation policy will result in most of HR 3200 getting chopped, as Blue Dogs will not pass anything that will slit their own throats. This leaves a wonderful dichotomy for the GOP.
The far Left is too crazy to support a version without a public mandate/option, as they rightly believe this is their last, best chance at this for several years. The near Left is too sane to allow anything that will kick all their asses out of office in 2010, and not even Olympia Snowe is wandering over to see how the other side of the fence is doing. The “Party of NO” has become the only bipartisan force in this nation on health care, and the Dems within are ensconced, having already been burned badly on Cap and Trade legislation, since parked in the Senate.
Not only does the GOP carry the day hand-in-hand with a plurality of the nation, but they are using part of the Democrats against themselves, allowing them ground to complain that nothing is getting done, even when they compose the opposition. Very rarely does a party have nothing to lose by opposing an issue on such strong grounds. So far they haven’t screwed it up yet.
