In today’s WSJ, Fred Barnes has a good column in which he argues that if the Obamacrats succeed in passing their “reform” bill and shackling Americans to thoroughly federalized health care (the ultimate goal of Obama and Pelosi), there will be political warfare over it for decades.
Barnes is channeling this piece I wrote last year in which I likened Obamacare to Napoleon’s disastrous decision to invade Spain in 1808. Just as Napoleon thought conquering Spain would be easy and cost little, so did Obama think that remaking American health care to suit his socialist/authoritarian instincts would be easy and costless.
And just as a lot of French soldiers bitterly regretted the Emperor’s decision to throw them into a meat grinder in Spain, so will a lot of Democrats regret Obama’s decision to stake everything on passing this abominable bill.
