David Broder reports on a Quinnipiac University poll of of voters on Obamacare:

one question was particularly interesting to me. It read: “President Obama has pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our federal budget deficit over the next decade. Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep his promise or do you think that any health care plan that Congress passes and President Obama signs will add to the federal budget deficit?”

The answer: Less than one-fifth of the voters — 19 percent of the sample — think he will keep his word. Nine of 10 Republicans and eight of 10 independents said that whatever passes will add to the torrent of red ink. By a margin of four to three, even Democrats agreed this is likely. That fear contributed directly to the fact that, by a 16-point margin, the majority in this poll said they oppose the legislation moving through Congress…

And yet the suicide march of the Democrats in Washington continues, threatening to bring all of us along with them. Roger Simon adds:

“I don’t think I’ve even seen the nation’s capital in such a genuinely depressed mood…the atmosphere now is almost unnerving. No one seems to really like this healthcare legislation…People just care about enacting or defeating it…there is no discussion. Cap-and-trade, Afghanistan, everything is in a weird stasis…What’s astonishing about the Obama crew, however, is that they arrived on the wings of untold optimism supported by almost the entire media and still they have plummeted to near nothing in less than a year. Scary.”

Indeed. Incompetence, arrogance and relentlessness are an alarming combination. The center does not hold, and the worst are full of passionate intensity. Now where have we heard that before?

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