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Defend America on Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:44:16 PM
A Liberty Issue
Government health care would be wrong even if it “controlled costs.”
By Mark Steyn
My
conservative friends — and even a few media liberals — are agreed: The
bloom is off the Obama rose. He’s not the Obamessiah, just another
50-percent president. He tried to do too much too fast, and his numbers
are sinking. The Europeanization of health care is dead.
Fuhgeddabouddit.
I wouldn’t be so sure. President Obama has no
choice but to move fast, in part because the image he presented during
the campaign — a post-partisan, post-racial,
post-anything-unpleasant-and-controversial, pragmatic centrist — was a
total crock. He has a vast transformative domestic agenda and — because
most of its elements are not terribly popular — he has to accomplish it
at speed, or he won’t get it done at all.
Health-care “reform”? As we’ve seen this past week in the House of Representatives
,
put not your trust in “Blue Dog Democrats.” And, as we’ll no doubt see
in the weeks ahead in the Senate, put not your trust in “moderate
Republicans” whose urge to “reach across the aisle” is so reflexive it
ought to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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