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Defend America on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:16:06 PM
Maximum Achievable Damage
by Mona Charen
Does anyone remember the TV show "Supermarket Sweep"? Contestants
would compete with one another by careening through a supermarket and
grabbing as many products as they could toss into a basket. The winner
was the shopper whose cart carried the biggest price tag when the bell
sounded.
It's a fitting image for the way Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
have handled the most important domestic issue of the decade. They've
raced down the health policy aisles, sweeping items off the shelves and
into their legislative carts, heedless of nutritional value, taste, or
cost. As items dropped out on the hairpin turns, others were shoved
into the spaces. Harry Reid inserted the Medicare "buy-in" at the 11th
hour and just as quickly withdrew it under pressure. No organizing
principle has governed the contents of their baskets (Pelosi added and
jettisoned abortion coverage), just an urgent imperative to pass
something. And now, as the clock winds down, they are declaring, as a
journalistic cheerleader at the Washington Post put it, "a legislative
feat of epic proportions."
http://townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2009/12/22/maximum_achievable_damage