Can the GOP maintain the intensity of the opposition to Obamacare it has both mounted and built on over the past many months?
Political analysts have been busy saying “seven months is a lifetime in politics” since the passage of the massive (and massively unread) legislation of last week. They are right, of course, and in an ordinary political cycle, a half-year-plus could be counted on to diminish the upset over the jam-down.
President Obama could be counted on to use the bully pulpit to assuage and persuade, or at least to change the subject. A foreign crisis could intervene. A new debate could break out. Anything could happen and usually does.
So, the conventional wisdom goes, Democrats need not fear a wipeout in November. They might even stage a comeback of sorts. Nancy Pelosi’s innate winsomeness, Obama’s humility and graciousness in victory, and Harry Reid’s charisma could all combine to calm the political waters and allow the congressional majorities to perpetuate themselves.
After all, look what happened to the Tea Party movement born almost a year ago.
Oh, that’s right. The Tea Party movement didn’t dissipate over the past 12 months. It grew. Enormously. Dissatisfaction with Obamacare didn’t decline. It mounted. The president’s popularity has been steadily trending down despite more than two score and 10 speeches.
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Democrats and the White House are being goulishly cheerful – it would appear that the phrase “whistle past the graveyard” applies. Is it Halloween yet? Cheers.
Re: #1 — ” Is it Halloween yet?”
Not yet but close.