Pete, you are right that Wednesday would be an entirely different political world should Scott Brown prevail. The very notion that the House will somehow swallow the Senate bill hook, line, and sinker is preposterous on multiple levels. First, Bart Stupak and pro-life Democrats are supposed to simply fold up shop and declare themselves content with the Reid-Nelson language they have inveighed against? And what about last week’s grand deal with Big Labor? The union bosses are now going to sock it to their members and declare support for the full Cadillac tax? But the bigger issue is that all of the House Democrats in a post-Brown-victory environment will have a healthy dose of fear and skepticism. They will have seen a “safe” seat fall at the altar of ObamaCare. Who among them would then walk the plank for ObamaCare?

It is, as Pete suggests, a measure of how divorced from reality the Democratic leadership has become that a debilitating loss repudiating their signature issue would be greeted with the clarion call to rush through ObamaCare. Clive Crook pleads with Democrats:

The plain fact is, the Democrats have failed to make their case. They need to ask why, and start trying to fix it. Finding cunning ways to carry on regardless sends a message of contempt to the electorate, and one thing we know is that the electorate always gets the last word.

One can only marvel that the Democrats seem to think the answer to what ails them is: “More of the same!” Maybe Reid and Pelosi are that benighted, but I doubt 218 of the House Democrats will be.