The People Win, Pelosi And Reid Lose

The voters sent the Democrats multiple messages. Pelosi, Reid and Obama ignored them - and paid.

Eleven months ago, after the Massachusetts Senate election, I was convinced that Democrats could not jam their health care bill through because voters had so clearly demanded they not do so. But Pelosi proved more determined and resourceful than I had imagined, and found enough House Democrats who were willing to risk electoral defeat to achieve what Democrats proclaimed was an historic accomplishment.
Pelosi and Obama predicted that Obamacare would become more popular as voters learned more about it.

Those predictions were based on the theory that in times of economic distress Americans would be more supportive of or amenable to big government policies. 

That theory has been disproved about as conclusively as any theory can be in the real world, and most of the Democrats who provided the key votes for Obamacare were defeated on Election Day.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/12/reid-and-pelosi-finally-get-mugged-public-opinion#ixzz18Z57o4Fi