Obama Meets Toto

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. At some point government stupidity, corruption and inefficiency become plain for all to see and its cost too great to bear.

Arguably, achieving certain public goods this way could have endured for the Democrats—but only if programs like Medicaid remained as modest as their originators promised. Or if government's advocates had made choices. We can do this (Medicare for the elderly), but not that (Medicare for all, now called ObamaCare). But any liberal suggesting judgment or restraint—a Sen. Pat Moynihan— was tossed off the magic bus.


Now government's inefficiency has become indefensible and its fantastic costs, its oceanic spending, a clear and present danger.