The Daily Plunge

It’s time to put ObamaCare behind me and safely on the dusty back shelf I call my cerebral cortex. There are plenty of battles ahead, but other issues loom on the horizon, like the ever-controversial kickball postseason. The Democrats are busy giving themselves high fives and Tom Harkin is promising to add the public option in next year’s budget. Even under the rosiest scenario there are going to be less Democrats in Washington this time next year.

The problem Democrats have is that they just passed a massively unpopular bill and they don’t have anything they can offer the American people that’s popular. I guess they could try to pass the climate change bill (a.k.a., cap and trade), but that’s probably hung up forever in the Senate. They could tackle the immigration issue. However, the Democrats are in favor of amnesty, which is another unpopular topic. What about the Value Added Tax (VAT)? Mmmmmmmmm. That sounds good!

One pundit who has been absolutely outstanding in his predictive powers over the past year is Charles Krauthammer. He predicted early on that ObamaCare would pass and he never wavered, even in January after Brown’s election. Krauthammer believes that a national sales tax in inevitable.

I’m not exactly sure how the President is going to make this case to the American people. Passing a Utopian entitlement is easy. Passing a massive tax increase during a severe recession won’t be very popular. What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare? There’s a chance the individual mandate will be declared unconstitutional. Unless there’s a massive economic boom in the next six months things are likely to get worse for Obama and the Democrats.