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Respond to In Their Panic, Democrats Become Reckless GamblersNoah Rothman | 11:33 am, November 22nd, 2013 197 stipulates that when a person begins to come to terms with increasingly likely losses, they become risk-takers. Losses sting, the theory asserts, more than gains reward. Thus, risk-seeking behavior increases as the acute pain of an imminent loss comes clearly into focus. Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto astutely cited prospect theory on Thursday in the wake of the unprecedented maneuver by Senate Democrats to change the rules of the Senate by a simple majority vote along party lines. The ground is collapsing out from under Democratic feet. In a panic, they are falling back on maneuvers which mitigate immediate pain and provide short-term gains, Barack Obama ’s party in Congress abandoned the long game they had played so well over the course of the Republican-led government shutdown within days of the government reopening. When the public’s attention was focused squarely on the problematic website, the waves of insurance cancellations, and price shocks, Democrats panicked.as POLITICO reported chips away at the economic viability of the law . Fewer people will be funneled into more costly plans which would have subsidized the waves of sick and infirmed uninsured who threaten to overwhelm the system. It remains to be seen how much damage this new “fix” will do to the economic health of the law, but it makes the onset of the oft-warned of “death spiral” that much more likely. George W. Bush had 4 percent more of his judicial nominees confirmed than Obama, the Democratic base was convinced that a great injustice was afoot. the latest CBS News/New York Times survey , only 58 percent of Democrats expressed approval of the ACA – down from 74 percent the month prior. Moreover, only 12 percent of Democrats told pollsters that the law was “working well.” 72 percent said that reforms to the law were needed, while only another 12 percent of self-identified Democrats backed full repeal. Rank and file Democrats, amid a surge of bad news about the ACA, had begun to question whether this was a hill worth dying on. This disease of self-doubt could not be allowed to metastasize. As NBC News reporter Chuck Todd accurately said on Thursday, the Democrats’ deflated “activist base” needed a victory , even a pyrrhic one. likely to incent the minority to use all the powers still at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt. Furthermore, they knew that the GOP, once in the majority, would use this precedent to pass not only judicial but possibly Supreme Court nominees, or even legislative initiatives, with a simple majority vote. read a statement issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), a 34-year veteran of what was once affectionately referred to as world’s most deliberative body. mediaite.com
