How About This Mantra?

The line of the day comes from a report at Michelle Malkin quoting The Mavericky One’s former favorite newspaper, the New York Times:

…vote yes and chalk up an accomplishment, or vote no and be painted as a failure…

How about this?  Vote yes, and be painted as a sucker…

Democrats don’t need Obamacare to succeed.  Obama needs Democrats committing political suicide on Obamacare to succeed.  Democrats in the House could kill this bill, and have a chance at retaining their careers and passing future actual accomplishments longer than Obama will.

Now for the “sucker” part.  There won’t be a reconciliation.  No one else will want to touch this hot potato after the House is done with it and take the additional hits.  Once Obama has signed the bill into law, he’ll have his “historic victory.”  He’ll have his “something” while the House holds the bag.  Yes, they could try to fix the misery they’ll cause later, but further tweaks and fixes can be spun by the opposition as “Well, if you want to fix the mess you made, repeal the original bill!”

Third bill for Stupak on abortion?  It wouldn’t make it to the floor in either chamber.  Stupak should take the fact they’re even mentioning it as an insult to his intelligence.  The leadership will promise him and his holdouts the world, then burn them once the bill is law.

So how about this mantra instead?

…vote yes and be painted as a sucker, or vote no and live to fight another day…

Seriously, what about Obama is really worth the loss of their careers?

Filed under: Commentary and Opinion on March 8th, 2010 No Comments