Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Old Hat Obama?
When you think of new and hip and agile and smart, do you think of "medicare for all" or "health care reform?" is Barack Obama, who campaigned on being smart and innovative, a political troglodyte promising to bring back those great old days of the 1930s?
Daniel Henninger ...
Daniel Henninger ...
In a world defined by nearly 100,000 iPhone apps, a world of seemingly limitless, self-defined choice, the Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965. And they brag this will complete the dream Franklin D. Roosevelt had in 1939....
Everything about the health-care exercise is looking very old hat, starting with the old guys working on it. Max Baucus, Patrick Leahy, Pete Stark—all were elected to Congress in the 1970s, and live on as the immortals in Washington's Forever Land. But it's more than the fact that Congress looks old. The health-care bill is big, complex, incomprehensible and coercive—all the things people hate nowadays.
Labels: health care, Liberalism, Obama
