Again, the NBC/WSJ survey paints a dire picture. Fifty six percent of Republicans call themselves highly interested in the 2010 election while 46 percent of Democrats say the same. Among that highly interested group, Republicans hold a 47 percent to 39 percent edge on the generic ballot question. That sort of base energy disparity should worry any Democrat with even a passing interest in the 2010 election....and Dana Milbank.
The numbers make clear that simply passing the bill isn't the panacea to Democrats' political problems on health care. In fact, there's a very real possibility it could make things worse.
There's still a good chance that the Democrats are just bluffing with their yule-session threat. On Wednesday, The Post's Shailagh Murray asked Durbin at a news conference whether the Senate would leave for Christmas if the health-care bill wasn't done.You can always count on these two to play up the angle of those mean old Democrats messing with the comity of the chummy Senate, where the status quo should be the Republicans having their way. After all, they won in 2008. How dare the Democrats make the Republicans stay through Christmas while they keep properly delaying health care reform? That's un-American.
"Don't you dare say that," replied Durbin, who wants his figgy pudding as much as the next guy. "We're going to finish it."
It was then pointed out to Durbin that Republicans plan to force the clerk to read all 2,000 pages of the bill -- a process that could take more than 40 hours. Durbin became less certain. "I think that we can get this done in time for each of us to be home for Christmas," he said. "That's our goal."
Why gosh, both Chris and Dana here are advising the Dems to just give up on this health care reform thing and move on with the Clintonian triangulation already of letting the Republicans get back to properly running America. That's what the voters wanted, clearly.
The Village hath spoken. It's Hillarycare now, and it has to die.
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