Or are they just now realizing that they’re in free fall?
We’re picking up some signs that it’s dawning on at least some House Democrats that abandoning the Senate health care bill might be suicidal politically.
Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) will be touring Capitol Hill today. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Some top-notch foreign policy analysis this morning from Fox News’ Steve Doocy. After a segment on those bible citations inscribed on U.S. military rifle sights, Doocy, citing his wife’s wisdom, says when it comes to injecting religion into warfare, we’re not the ones who started it:
‘Hey, wait a minute, the Taliban and the extremists — what is it they say just before they blow themselves up which kills somebody, they say, ‘Allahu Akbar.’ So if anybody’s making this a religious thing, they started it.”
John Edwards issues statement to NBC admitting that he fathered a child with Rielle Hunter.
Scott Brown was so gunned up to get down to the work of being a senator that by Wednesday morning he’d already recorded his first robo-call for John McCain.
From TPM Reader MB …
What really bothers me about the Dems’ epic collapse, more than anything, is how easily they gave up. Not even on a political level, but on a human level, it boggles the mind.
Our oft-times quoted, long-time TPM Reader JB, a former Republican Hill staffer, checks in with his read …
As you can imagine, I read reports of the Democrats’ reaction to the Massachusetts election with some interest, particularly the comment you posted Wednesday afternoon from the Democratic Senate staffer who can’t say what the Democrats stand for. I have a theory about this.
This email from TPM Reader AF really strikes a chord with me. Yesterday afternoon, we brainstormed a piece based on what two of our DC reporters were picking up on the Hill, which was that it really didn’t seem clear that the folks on the Hill were at all prepared for a Coakley defeat — which wasn’t certain but looked quite likely. And everything that happened over the last 24 hours confirms that perception. In some ways, what surprised me most about today was just how little real thought seems to have gone into what the plan or even the message would be Tuesday morning.
Am I the only one who has the feeling that this morning, the Democrats in DC are winging the PR message? As if, last night, they looked out, saw the carnage, and sometime between 9 PM and 9 AM tried to pencil in a few minutes to think about what they’re going to say?
TPM Reader GM checks in.
Regarding your most recent post, “No Need to Push,” I thought I would share my story.
I called up my congressman, Rep. Nadler, of the West Side of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn (I live on the Upper West Side). More than the MA Senate result, I was unhappy with his comment that you reported in this link