tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post4803774940045902369..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: If It's 59...Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-60293968816574463942010-01-18T19:24:36.177-06:002010-01-18T19:24:36.177-06:00It looks like you've called it! From the NYT,
...It looks like you've called it! From the NYT,<br /><br />"Ms. Pelosi told reporters in California on Monday. 'Just the question of how we would proceed. But it doesn’t mean we won’t have a health care bill.' <br /><br />'Let’s remove all doubt,' she added. 'We will have health care one way or another.' "<br /><br />Sounds like she's willing to make the House walk-the-plank for the Senate bill. A Republican dream come true - there'll be Scott Browns in every district inside a month!Tom Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020816016509323155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-39298949906266903342010-01-18T17:59:08.925-06:002010-01-18T17:59:08.925-06:00Man, you last paragraph perfectly captures what I ...Man, you last paragraph perfectly captures what I was thinking. The inability of the Dems to get this done quickly after Christmas looks positively cataclysmic at the moment but also seems a sadly appropriate denouncement to health care reform. The Democratic Party has been arguing amongst itself for months now, at least since the bill came out of the Senate Finance Committee. Is it any wonder the public has turned so harshly on it? I am as loyal a D as you can find. I think this bill is the greatest social policy advancement since the Great Society. That said, I have found the sausage making to be frustrating at best, grotesque at worst. Obama has a lot of work to do to get the public back on his side.CTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10928983745917493342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-79033526113195968442010-01-18T12:00:36.994-06:002010-01-18T12:00:36.994-06:00Actually, I think that if health care reform does ...Actually, I think that if health care reform does pass and get implemented, it's unlikely to be a problem for those who voted for it. The big problem for Dems is short term...in fact, this is probably the time of maximum danger. As far as why support has dipped, odds are that it's one part the recession (making Obama less popular, and therefore his initiative less popular), one part that sausage-making is just ugly, regardless of how good the results turn out to be, and one part the effects of the GOP rejectionist strategy. Don't know the relative size of those parts, but my guess would be that the recession is the big one.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-47538313279971901782010-01-18T08:58:46.596-06:002010-01-18T08:58:46.596-06:00Jon,
What explains the drop in support for health...Jon,<br /><br />What explains the drop in support for healthcare in MA – which appears to be 10% in the last few months? I would certainly rather be candidate X who says, "I heard the people and voted to stop this horrible health care reform law," than the one who gets the other two ads run against him by the next Scott Brown.<br /><br />TomTom Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020816016509323155noreply@blogger.com