What will the political ramifications of passing the HCR be?

[MUAD_DIB]

[leftstreet]

1. It's a GOP win mostly for the campaign talking points they can get out of it

Both parties want this 'reform'

But both parties need populist talking points to stir up the serfs.

[Skinner]

2. I'm usually the last person to say this, but here goes:

I don't care.

It's the right thing to do. If we lose the politics, so be it. At least we made a difference. Did something BIG.

[MUAD_DIB]

4. Agreed. It is the right thing to do.

I also believe that it is BIG enough to stymie the endless attack of human waste that embodies what is known as the GOP.


It's Killing two birds with one stone, Skinner.

[rzemanfl]

9. Quite a while back The Magistrate posted something elegant

about some of the Dems having to take a hit for this. So be it.

[Oregone]

3. No clue. Depends on the loudest narrative

The Democrats have something working for them: America's urgency for reform and their ignorance of the actual bill

Against them: A noisy media machine, an obnoxious party, and a bill that sucks in many ways.

Its a toss up.

[NJmaverick]

5. The Dems win big. Getting things done matters

by November some of the good things in the bill will take hold, plus the economy will be better. It will be the GOP's worse nightmare.

[Mz Pip]

6. I don't think this will be some huge

win for the GOP. All they've done is babble on about how passing HCR will be the end of the world as we know it. When that turns out not to be true, they won't have much use for those talking points.

What are they going to run on?

[Xenotime]

7. GOP is done. This will accelerate their decline.

[Lyric]

8. We'll lose seats.

People are worked-up and anxious about this, and since they won't see much of an immediate benefit, they might decide (prematurely) that the whole thing was useless.

[pampango]

10. It will help us in November, but we need to follow it up with finance and immigration reform

along with DADT and EFCA. This will start to prove that the Democratic Party can govern, but let's not take the next 8 month off. Keep the legislation that the republicans hate coming. HCR by itself won't turn our prospects around, but continued reforms will.