Pass The Damn Bill, Part 3

Today's Pass The Damn Bill argument comes to us from Nate Silver:

The near-term political case for passing health care, again, is not that the bill is magically going to become popular over the next eight months. Rather, it's that the Democrats are already in such bad shape among independents -- partly, no doubt, because of their bungled handling of what has become an unpopular health care bill -- that they may as well go ahead and give their base something to get excited about. Seriously, the Democrats' approval rating among independents in 19 percent. What more do they have to lose? 

19 percent?!?!  Pass The Damn Bill, guys.  It's the only shot you have.  If you do not, you lose in 2010.  Period.