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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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Kiss Dem Agenda Goodbye, Say Hello to Job Worries

Pelosi will try to ram health care through before Blue Dogs bolt

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(Newser) – The Obama administration is running out of time in its race to enact its liberal agenda before Democratic candidates start caring more about their own re-election than the party line, writes Kim Strassel. Tuesday's results show that Obama's power is weakening, and will be the tipping point for many "Blue Dogs and freshmen and swing-state senators," Strassel writes in the Wall Street Journal.

Nancy Pelosi is rushing through the health-care vote before worried Democrats get a chance to absorb the results and start distancing themselves from her agenda, but it may already be too late. "A lot of Democrats are getting a sneaky suspicion Pelosi is willing to sacrifice their seats on the altar of liberal government health care," Strassel writes. "Combined with the election results and Obama's falling poll numbers, this is no recipe for loyalty."

Political campaign signs cover the median of Bergen Pike in Little Ferry, N.J., Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.
Political campaign signs cover the median of Bergen Pike in Little Ferry, N.J., Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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The mass defection in the independent vote, the uptick in the angry-senior vote, the swing in suburban voters, the drop-off in Democratic turnout—the figures have even hot incumbent blood running cold. - Kim Strassel

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tomodachi
Nov 6, 09 9:25 AM CST
HAHA... and the Republicans will save us from the democrats... Please God... no more... stop the insanity. Reply
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dontlikeyou
Nov 6, 09 10:00 AM CST
The smell of desperation is beginning to permeate from the white house.
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tomodachi
Nov 6, 09 11:12 AM CST
I think what you smell isn't desperation... it's the rotting pile of feces coming from this drama crap being concealed as news. A Trojan horse with a back door exit... if you can picture it.
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BlueAyez
Nov 6, 09 9:27 AM CST
I don't suppose anyone has ever considered the fact that this health care reform will provide new jobs? Since people aren't likely to stop needing health care, it's hardly a bubble industry. Not all of us have the money to fly to a medical spa in India for cut rate care. Reply
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Doctor_Zaius
Nov 6, 09 9:35 AM CST
More dribble from the extreme right wing Wall St Journal Op/Ed page. The rest of the paper is top notch, the Op/Ed section is pure right wing science fiction. ` Reply
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