Chait might be right, (though the outcry might be enough to allow the GOP to repeal it in ’11), but ultimately, I fear you’re right. I’m going to have to, by e-mail, congratulate my Tea Party uncle, who is rabidly anti-government intervention in anything. They want the Obama agenda to die, and they’re going to get their wish. In domestic affairs, they have succeeded in discrediting the mere idea of government.

In the end, it is ALL OUR fault. CBS talked to a Mass. independent who said he didn’t see the health care bill as a “necessary evil,” so he opposed it. As wonks know, the system is BROKEN, but, right now it still works for enough folks. In the end, we as a nation are unwilling to even risk sacrifice for the larger good.

That’s why Obama could fail, through little fault of his own.