Dems Heading for the Tall Grass on Obamacare

Once the enormity of last night's Scott Brown win was realized, several Democrats suddenly became fans of pulling back on the process of jamming Obamacare down America's throats. The first was Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), then (of all people) Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), then Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), and now Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO):

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has joined Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) in warning leaders not to try to push a revised health care reform bill through the Senate before newly elected Republican Scott Brown arrives.

McCaskill said Wednesday morning that the agenda is moving "going too far, too fast" and that it would be a "huge mistake" for Democrats to force a vote on a new bill in the Senate before the new senator from Massachusetts is seated.

"As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast," McCaskill told POLITICO.

At the same time, however, McCaskill defended the administration's approach, saying the president inherited an economic recession that he couldn't resolve with "little itty-bitty baby steps."

"You take the big things we had to do, as related to the economy, and you combine that with the frustration of the American people and a big health care bill that frankly, because it was big and complicated, it lent itself to this almost virulent misinformation that got out there," McCaskill said. "The more those seeds planted, the more they flourished in that environment, and I think now we've got to hunker down and be realistic about what we can accomplish and certainly realize that if we don't pay attention to what the voters say in Massachusetts, then I think we do so at the peril of our party's effectiveness."

Thanks to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit and a bunch of other activists in the St. Louis area, Missouri has been a hotbed of Tea Party activity and McCaskill has often been in the crosshairs of the protests. Looks like she's finally starting to listen.