Peter Wehner has it right in Commentary.

These people strike me as hermetically sealed off from how most of the rest of the country view this subject. As these backroom deals become more and more widely known, anger will swell up among voters. It is bad enough to jam through a bill on a strict party-line-vote against overwhelming opposition from the public; for it to have happened only because various Members of Congress were legally bribed will magnify the intensity of the opposition. And for politicians to take such obvious pride in the pay-off will make things even worse. The populist, anti-Washington wave out there, which is already quite large, will only grow, and grow, and grow.

via Commentary: The Culture of Corruption.

Not only are the tone deaf Democrats handing the Republicans a battle cry, they well may be setting themselves back for more than a decade. One has to wonder if this is getting to be 1994 revisited. In fact, the Democrats and Obama, in touting “reform” but in reality bribing (legally though) Senators and those bribes becoming public knowledge and all of the faux pax made by the Obama administration (administration… are you kidding? administering implies competence …ed) from the (non)Gitmo closing to bowing down before other heads of state and royalty to the most recent claim by Obama that he didn’t campaign on the so called public option (yeah, yeah, I know, the Obamabots will say otherwise) are angering a wide swath of those likely to vote. Obama’s popularity after less than a year is now below that of G.W.B. and that is not only a minor miracle, but stupefies more pundits on the left than on the right.

If the Republicans know how to play their cards right (a dubious possibility if there ever was one) they could take over both houses (and no, I’m not holding my breath – the RNC has shown itself to be pretty clueless in playing hardball politics).

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