Health Care BS

The sudden decisions by 4 high-profile Dems to retire suggests they expect an electoral disaster in November:

Four top Democrats—including veteran Sens. Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan—all prepared to pull the plug on their campaigns in a 24-hour period that began Tuesday, and in the process, offered an unnerving glimpse at the perilous election year ahead.

And they are almost certainly right about the coming voter backlash against their irresponsible behavior:

In the meantime, President Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s poll ratings have slipped across the board, generic polling is now generally more favorable to Republicans and a handful of promising Democratic House candidates have abruptly ended their campaigns.

Thus, they are rushing through an incredibly ill-conceived and destructive health care”reform” bill.

They know Obamacare will never get through the Congress that we’re going to elect in November.

UPDATE:

Ed Morrissey points out that Rasmussen is showing a nine-point Republican lead in the Generic Congressional Ballot and provides some historical context:

In the past, Republicans have picked up seats even while slightly trailing on this polling question.  A nine-point GOP lead translates to a very bad November for Democrats.

Couldn’t happen to nicer bunch of people.