It's not the 60th vote that the Democrats just lost this night. Even if Scott Brown had not won, his near miraculous rise in the polls where he became a real threat to Martha Coakley clearly indicated the public's dissatisfaction with the health care bill.
But the Democrats as late as today were still airily bandying about the notion that all they had to do was re-vote the Senate bill and send it to the president. Are they for real? Does Nancy Pelosi really think that her congressional caucus are such lemmings that they would vote for a bill they clearly couldn't pass (the Senate's version) on the first try? Add to that, after today's upset, would all 220 Democrats who voted for the House version of the Health Care bill in November vote even for their own version again?
I kind of doubt it. After all, politicians are masters of self preservation and if the people are so against this bill that a left wing state like Massachusetts can elect a conservative Republican on the strength of his opposition to this bill I am sure they will take notice.
Nancy Pelosi, what were you thinking?
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