Very strange:
Politico’s Mike Allen and Alexander Trowbridge have some bad news for Democrats, especially in the Senate, where Harry Reid has kept the chamber locked in battle over ObamaCare for weeks in an attempt to hit the finish line by Christmas. Barack Obama plans to put the health-care overhaul on the back burner until after the State of the Union address, pushing any conference between the House and Senate off until February. Instead, Obama plans a “hard pivot” towards jobs and the economy…
Was this a complete surprise to the Senate Democrats? If it was, then Obama just evaporated whatever good will remained for him in the Senate…and the House, for that matter. These people went to the mat for ObamaCare – have risked their re-election efforts and already have the “he voted for The Bad Thing” ads waiting for them at election time – and now Obama is putting it off until February?
I admit to being astounded by this – unless Nancy and Harry told him that they can’t reconcile right now given the fissures in the Democrat party. Or, they have done all their internal polling and realize that ObamaCare is the kiss of death. This is a possibility – but, really, the damage is already done.
This will make for an interesting Christmas.
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