By Dick Morris
There comes a time in the most heated of political debates when the small media drowns out the big media and the grass roots outgrow the giant trees. Nobody has the president’s huge microphone. But we all have voices and, when they swell to a chorus, they dominate the national dialogue.

Bush encountered such sales resistance over Iraq as Johnson did on Vietnam and Nixon over Watergate. No presidential speech or Congressional phalanx can out shout an aroused American public. All the tools of spin doctors and media mavens are useless in the face of a growing public, national consensus is this idea and this plan are fundamentally flawed.

It is, essentially, a program to force people who don’t need it to buy health insurance so as to lower costs for those who do and to subsidize part of the price tag by cutting medical care to the elderly.

Will the sixty Democratic Senators and the 76 vote House majority pass it anyway? It is hard to estimate a politician’s capacity for suicide or how easy it is to lead a political party into oblivion. But, certainly, when opposition to the president’s program grows from the current 42-55 disapproval into the 35-65 range, Congress must balk rather than march over the cliff.