By Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith

Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from an entry this morning on Wesley’s fine blog at http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/11/01/obamacare-a-primary-cause-if-the-democrats-take-the-fall/

I don’t do partisan politics here, meaning I am not into the horse race. But I just read an article by the excellent and usually very accurate pollster Scott Rasmussen that I think hits the proverbial nail on the head. If the Dems fall hard on Tuesday, a major cause will be the party’s arrogance–and for me, that is spelled PELOSI–around the issue of health care reform. From the article [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703708404575586063725870380.html]:

Central to the Democrats’ electoral woes was the debate on health-care reform. From the moment in May 2009 when the Congressional Budget Office announced that the president’s plan would cost a trillion dollars, most voters opposed it. Today 53% want to repeal it. Opposition was always more intense than support, and opposition was especially high among senior citizens, who vote in high numbers in midterm elections. Rather than acknowledging the public concern by passing a smaller and more popular plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama insisted on passing the proposed legislation by any means possible. As a result, Democrats face massive losses in tomorrow’s midterm election.…

The ultimate passage and signing of Obamacare was as disgusting and anti-democratic a spectacle as I have seen in my 45 years of being interested in politics. And I am far from alone in that assessment. The bill and how it was passed really infuriated the American people–as I found when I was asked to speak last year at an ad hoc town hall meeting in Louisville.

I don’t know what will happen in the election. But frankly, the Democrats deserve a Major League drubbing for arrogantly legislating against will of, and over the angry and overwhelming objections clearly and abundantly expressed by, the American people.