“Seven months. Boy, I don’t know. That’s a lot of time to do damage control, bait and switch, and distraction maneuvers. “
That’s true. However, another way to look at it is this: seven months is also plenty of time for the inner content of this bill to become known to even the most distracted voter.
The implications of this bill are too big to be successfully hidden. At the end of the day, many doctors will be leaving medicine, many companies will be dropping health care, and many people are going to realize that this will cost them an arm and a leg (both literally and figuratively?)
While the tea parties are important, they aren’t the most important thing. The important thing is the vast numbers of non-Tea Party people who are against this bill, or warily for it, for whom reality is starting to set in.
My one caveat to this is that if the Republican establishment starts caving into this conventional wisdom that public sentiment will start favoring HC, then they may so muddy the waters that the Democrats could be saved.
In fact, I am much more concerned about the David Frums and Lindsey Grahams of the world than I am about any real controversy about the Tea Parties (assuming that a real controversy happens).