Numbers working against Democrats

Politico:

Counting to 60 in the Senate is only the beginning of the tough math that bedevils Democrats these days as they try to pass health reform, survive a bad economy and appeal more to the middle-class voters whose support they’ll need in the 2010 elections.

The giant health care bill rolled out Wednesday night by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is laced with puts-and-takes aimed at easing the burden on families in the $60,000-to-$80,000 income range.

But just around the corner next month, Reid’s Democrats face immediate new challenges, including a $925 billion debt ceiling increase and a social safety net that’s unraveling even as unemployment has topped 10 percent.

Expanded federal jobless benefits — hastily authorized under the economic recovery bill last February — are due to expire in January and will cost $85 billion to renew for the coming year. And this says nothing about a backlog of year-end spending bills and President Barack Obama’s decision on the Afghanistan war, which threatens to eat up whatever savings are coming from the troop withdrawals from Iraq.

For the first time, Democrats are talking seriously about going back and rechanneling portions of their $787 billion stimulus bill to help jump-start job-creation initiatives — such as a long-delayed highway bill.

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There is something of an admission that the stimulus bill did not accomplish its objectives and has made us worse off. These other items are also going against the voters objections. Control freak economics is not working and is pushing the US ever deeper into debt. It is probably going to have to take an election to stop the evils of liberalism that the Democrats are pushing.