Last night Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) asserted on the Senate floor that opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform “is about creating a political defeat for the president of the United States,” that it has “nothing to do with health care, entirely about creating a defeat for this new president….”
Also yesterday, reports Real Clear Politics, a new CNN poll found “61% opposed to the health care plan currently working its way through the Senate. Only 36% approve of the legislation.”
I wonder: does Sen Whitehouse believe that the opposition of 61% of “adult Americans” to the Democrats’ plan is based entirely on a desire to embarrass the president, that it has “nothing to do with health care”?
Hmm. So, we have one party opposing and the other party supporting something that 61% of adults oppose. Since politicians opposing something that most people oppose hardly requires a hidden, conspiratorial explanation, isn’t it more likely that it is the supporting party’s support that “has nothing to do with health care” but is based instead on a desire to prevent a defeat for their party and president?
