QUESTION: CAN PASSING A HUGE AND HUGELY UNPOPULAR BILL HELP OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS IN 2010?

NOPE.

SO... WHY ARE THEY GONNA DO IT?

MY GUESS:

• THEY'RE COWARDS.

• YUP: THEY LACK THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND TAKE THE BLAME FOR KILLING OBAMACARE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEIR BASE AND THE MSM.

• AND THEY FEEL THAT SOMEONE ELSE WILL STEP UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THEM, THUS ALLOWING THEM TO VOTE YES ON A BILL THAT WILL FAIL.

• AND - IF IT GETS SIGNED INTO LAW - THEY'RE COUNTING ON THE FACT THAT MAJORS CHANGES WON'T BE FELT UNTIL AFTER 2010.

• IOW: THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO:

• THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO TELL VOTERS THEY TRIED TO HELP - BY VOTING YES ON A FLAWED BILL, AND THEN BLAME THE FACT THAT IT FAILED TO BECOME LAW ON THE OTHER GUYS, BUSH, THE GOP, AND SO ON.

• THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS DOMINATED BY COLLECTIVISTS, RELATIVISTS AND COWARDS.

THE ELECTORATE WILL SEE THROUGH THIS CHARADE THIS TIME AND VOTE THEM OUT IN HUGE NUMBERS COME 2010.

YUP: I'M PREDICTING THAT THE GOP WILL RETAKE BOTH BODIES OF CONGRESS IN 2010.

UPDATE: Sean Trende RCP agrees: the bill is political suicide