Boulder is a Stoopid Place

If Democrats really believe that ObamaCare will help them in the midterm elections, then the most recent Gallup survey will leave them disillusioned. Americans remain just as skeptical as they have been for months on Democratic claims of cost effectiveness and improvements, both personally and to the system as a whole. In fact, only 21% think the new law will improve their health care, while 50% believe it will make it worse:

There is one more piece of bad news for Democrats. This is a poll of adults, not registered or likely voters, which would normally skew more towards liberal sensibilities. If this is the sense of the general adult population, then the attitudes of voters will be even more dour than this.

Should the United States someday suffer a budget crisis, it will be hard not to conclude that Obama and his allies sowed the seeds, because they ignored conspicuous warnings. A further irony will not escape historians. For two years, Obama and members of Congress have angrily blamed the shortsightedness and selfishness of bankers and rating agencies for causing the recent financial crisis. The president and his supporters, historians will note, were equally shortsighted and self-centered — though their quest was for political glory, not financial gain.