Well, he has been promising us a Christmas present.

Republican candidates now have an eight-point lead over Democrats, their biggest lead of the year, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for GOP candidates held steady over the past week, but support for Democrats slipped by a point.

The simple truth is this: the closer this federally intrusive, probably unconstitutional, health care reform nightmare gets to being a reality, the more the American public wakes up. Democrats can whine about Republicans blocking them (can any of them do simple math?) but the they’re taking a lot of heat from the left flank now too.

When the progressives are whining about tax increases you know that the realities of this bill are going to have some long-term “come back to bite them in the ass” consequences for all who signed onto it. We’re already finding out that-hey!-there is a too-powerful rationing panel that sounds eerily like what Sarah Palin has been describing all along. They’re calling it a board, however, so they can at least remain semantically correct in saying that it doesn’t exist.

This bill is so putrid that the Dems had to pull the double-whammy of using the “For the children…” argument and trotting out Ted Kennedy so often I thought they were going to exhume him for the finale.

It is beginning to look like even those caught up in the Cult of Obama can get a little vertigo when he’s about to march them off a cliff. As many of us over here on the unhinged right have been saying all along, Barack Obama is all about Barack Obama. If you jumped on the Hope & Change bus thinking that your best interests would ever trump his give me a call from under the bus.