Gird your loins. The conventional wisdom on the evening talk shows has been that if Martha Coakley loses the special election in Massachusetts, tomorrow, Obamacare is dead. But like some god-awful creature in a horror movie, it will not die, no matter how hard it’s hit. Obama will not let it:
President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.
“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.”
Even Bob Beckel on Hannity, tonight, thought that it would not be possible for the Dems to ram the bill through against the will of the people.
Yet that is precisely what Obama is hoping to do…
There won’t be any grand proclamation that “the era of Big Government is over” — the words President Bill Clinton uttered after Republicans won the Congress in the 1990s and he was forced to trim a once-ambitious agenda.
“The response will not be to do incremental things and try to salvage a few seats in the fall,” a presidential adviser said. “The best political route also happens to be the boldest rhetorical route, which is to go out and fight and let the chips fall where they may. We can say, ‘At least we fought for these things, and the Republicans said no.’”
It’s hard to comprehend how they can say it’s just “the Republicans”, when the healthcare bill is widely reviled, and the bluest state in the nation is on the verge of ‘saying no’.
An upset by Republican Scott Brown would be covered in many quarters as a repudiation of Obama, especially after Obama’s last-ditch campaign appearance with Coakley 36 hours before the polls opened.
But the president’s advisers plan to spin it as a validation of the underdog arguments that fueled Obama’s insurgent candidacy.
Obama…the underdog?! Against a Massachusetts Republican?!
“The painstaking campaign for change over two years in 2007 and 2008 has become a painstaking effort in the White House, too,” the official said. “The old habits of Washington aren’t going away easy.”
The White House rallying cry, according to one Obama confidant, will be, “Buckle up — let’s get some stuff done.”
These people are scary…and predictable:
More defensively, Obama advisers plan to argue that Coakley’s lackluster campaign contributed at least as much to the loss as the national environment.
“You can say it’s a rejection of the agenda,” a top Democrat said. “But it’s just as valid to say it’s frustration with the way things are going in the country and that people still want change.”
People want change, alright. But not in the direction these people think.
Hat tip: The Patriot Room


























