Politico: Bart Stupak (D-Mich) will not seek re-election. Retire now, or lose later.

UPDATE: John Fund: Stupak is a victim of ObamaCare.

John Fund: "There's a simple reason an ambitious Democratic agenda is unlikely to pass Congress this year -- whether on health care or any other issue. Democratic incumbents are running scared and the fear factor is only intensifying."

John Fund does not believe that Harry Reid will run for re-election.

John Fund says that Sen. Ben Nelson is reaping the whirlwind for the controversial deal he cut in exchange for his vote on health care.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that if he were running for re-election today, Mr. Nelson would lose to Nebraska's GOP Governor David Heineman by a stunning 61% to 30%. Only three years ago, Mr. Nelson won his current term with a solid 64% of the vote.
Clearly, the senator's fall in public esteem is a direct reaction to his having voted for the health care bill as part of a deal in which Nebraska was exempted from the costs of new federal Medicaid mandates. The ObamaCare bill was already unpopular enough in Nebraska but became even more so when state residents discovered they would be saddled with it anyway, plus exposed to national ridicule over Mr. Nelson's sweetheart deal. Now 53% strongly oppose the bill, while another 11% somewhat oppose it. Only 17% favor the deal that Mr. Nelson struck in order to vote for the bill.
But the poll also shows a path to redemption. Asked how they would vote in the 2012 election if Senator Nelson changed his vote and prevented the health care bill from becoming law, Nebraska voters give Governor Heineman a lead of only 47% to 37%.
"The revote results are nothing short of amazing," says Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, who notes that simply reversing his health-care vote immediately reduces Mr. Nelson's deficit by two-thirds. "The poll suggests the anger of Nebraska voters is deep and unusually intense, and not likely to dissipate quickly."

John Fund: ObamaCare is even less popular than HillaryCare was back in 1993.

John Fund: Why are Democrats so obsessed with health care? I've wondered that too.

... [M]any in the trenches are uneasy about the sprawling, complex bill they privately acknowledge has no bipartisan support, doesn't seriously tackle soaring costs and will increase insurance premiums. That may explain Majority Leader Harry Reid's haste—he has ordered a rare Sunday session this weekend to hurry up the debate. Public support for the bill averages only 39.2% backing in all polls compiled by Pollster.com.
But buried in the surveys is an explanation for the Democratic obsession to pass the bill: An overwhelming 76% of Democrats back it. "They believe the liberal base expects them to deliver and will punish them if they don't," says Democratic pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

They believe that passing health care will bail them out. I don't believe it will at all. When people find out what it really means for them, they will react in horror.

Losing sight of reality

The House Democrats under Nancy Pelosi are moving toward a vote on their health care bill tomorrow.

John Fund has some comments:

More than a few Democrats in Congress are perplexed and worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insisting on ramming through a 1,900-page health care bill on Saturday, just days after her party took heavy losses in Tuesday's elections. "It reminds me of Major Nicholson, the obsessed British major in the film 'Bridge on the River Kwai,'" one Democrat told me. "She is fixated on finishing her health care bridge even as she's lost sight of where it's going and what damage it could cause to her own troops."

"Like Major Nicholson on the River Kwai, they may wake up to find they built a monument to a set of presumptions that were really a form of madness."

By the way she also violated her pledge to post the bill online 72 hours before the vote.

I can't think of anything else to say now except, bring it on, Nancy!