They just don't get it.

Word today is that the House Dems will tweak the Senate health care reform bill and then send it back to the Senate and get it passed using reconciliation. They will rue the day they ram this down our throats. I frankly doubt they'll be able to get the votes in either chamber. The original House bill barely passed as it was. And now all the rats are scurrying for the exits. In the Senate, Lord Reid is unelectable. Who's going to walk the plank (again) for this lame duck -- to pass a bill nobody wants? You get the sense that the Dems don't get it -- push this and Obama is finished. You can't save him by passing wildly unpopular legislation. The best thing Obama could do during his State of the Union would be to repent. Take responsibility. Ask forgiveness. Stand up to the Left. Adopt simple, common sense reforms, get it passed with GOP cover and move on. But their arrogance does not allow for contrition, and their "adolescent utopianism" does not allow for common sense.

Looks like Obama's preparing to squander another year.