George Will deconstructs Obama’s activities during December here and explains the health care “reform” bill that gives new meaning to the word “reform.”
Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health care and
climate change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy
because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely
proportional to the time the public has had to think about them. And
the president pushing this agenda has, with his incontinent hunger for
attention, seen his job approval vary inversely with his ubiquity.
Consider his busy December — so far.…
One of Will’s best paragraphs:
A person can only be a novelty once, and only briefly, and charm, like
any commodity, when used uneconomically becomes a wasting asset. All
this is pertinent to the Senate health care debate, now coming to a
curious climax amid another glut of careless grandiosity…..
His conclusion:
A CNN poll shows 36 percent of the public in favor of what the
Democratic Senate is trying to do to health care, 61 percent opposed.
It is clear what the public wants Congress to do: Take a mulligan and
start over.So Republicans can win in 2009 by stopping the bill, or
in 2010 by saying: Unpopular health legislation passed because of a
60-40 party-line decision to bring it to a Senate vote. Therefore each
incumbent Democrat is responsible for everything in the law.
