Obama’s last year

With 60 seats in the Senate and a huge majority in the House, Democrats still needed the entire year to pass their health care bill — and that project isn’t even finished. Lately reports out of the Hill have been saying that the final push to reconcile the House and Senate bills won’t take place until February. If the rejiggered bill loses even three votes in the House, it fails. Pro-life Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) has said he can’t support a bill that is as friendly toward federal abortion funding as the Senate version, and he says he there are 10 other Dems who voted for the House version who feel the same way.

Even if a person doesn’t agree with the political judgments, the political reality discussed in this article is sound. The Democrats know they are not doing the will of the people by ramming through bad health care reform, and they know they are going to lose big in 2010. While they will play it down and say “this always happens,” they were also saying just a year ago that the Republican Party would never recover.

Nancy Pelosi is conceding 40 seats in the house by passing the health care bill. She says it’s worth it (so nice of her to speak for other people’s jobs). If she’s conceding 40, it’ll probably be more, and that will bring about the end of the Obama Administration as we know it (and, as the article suggests, make his Presidency better).