Health care plan is tanking Obama and Democrats. The heat is on them, big time.

The Democrats making a mess out of health
care. Obama is tanking fast, and so is the
approval rating of Congress.

The 'Blow' Monkey


The Monkey Trap


From the Belmont Club
Richard Fernandez


With President’s Obama’s approval ratings down to 44% and his approval index at its lowest points ever, the administration may have difficulty getting the 60 votes needed to obtain health care “reform”, even after a proposal to appeal to voters aged 55 to 64 was included. Megan McArdle writes that Joe Lieberman’s opposition even to the current compromise will make “progressives … livid”. While the numbers may be against the Democrats now, they will move heaven and earth to get the votes and will stop at nothing to get them.




It’s highly unlikely that Democrats will keep exactly 58 seats plus Bernie Sanders. At that point, one way or another, Joe Lieberman becomes largely superfluous. And the Democrats are going to have their knives out.



But the answer to her self-posed question is elsewhere on the Atlantic article. Maybe it’s not Lieberman who’s cutting his own throat but the Democrats themselves. The harder they try with health care “reform” the lower they fall in the polls. Why? maybe because many voters have concluded that health care not about health so much as about money. The trust is gone; the words remain the same by the melody is broken; the administration has lost that lovin’ feelin’. McArdle notes that the louder they sing, the more the audience stops its ears.

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