It's part of the big risk Obama is taking by staking everything on passage of this legislation. (I'm neither surprised, and as with McCain, but which then put me at odds with most people, I see not only the risk but find it understandable that he would take that risk and put other business on hold to try to get this done — and it makes much more sense than the bailout, which the public was also, though actually not as much, against).

Even the mildest polls, the kindest to Obama and Dems, show this.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/…

The other part of the big risk Obama and the Dems are taking isn't so much the misuse of reconciliation, thought that offends many. More important is that they haven't learned the lesson of overreach from the past year — they want to overspend, and pass more bad legislation, and do wacky other things like combine health care “reform” with federal takeover of student loans (itself offensive to the mainstream).

They're actually risking much worse, by doing unnecessary additional wrong things while trying whatever they can to get a victory on this year-defining issue of health care, and to get past GOP obstructionism, which is understandable.

It's risky enough that they're trying to pass bad legislation disapproved of by the majority — and swing districts and voters. Read the details (disturbing for ignorant supporters of this legislation) here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487…

Republicans are spreading misinformation to their constituents, and then using the resulting outrage as rationale for fighting a program that will more than likely benefit those same constituents.

Even so, a majority support reform, and if it weren't for the strongest desire by today's Republican Leadership to crush Obama, most of them would support this bill, too. The very concept of the exchange is their idea, as are many others that have been added.

Republicans tend to get better coverage just because if they did that to them it would be proof of their “bias.” This is one of the main reasons I hate Rush, he won, he turned our media into right wing biased by making them conscious he was watching which resulted in them pulling their punches and therefore actually being biased and amazingly still never giving them credit for it and still calling them liberally biased though all research from non-partisan groups shows either right wing/pro-corporate bias or a mixture. It would be hilarious if I did not live here.

“You know who else passed legislation? HITLER!”

That's how this damn debate sounds now. Ram it down their throats, if only stop the endless, pathetic mewling.