ObamaCare is Not a Fait Accompli
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 25th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
ObamaCare is Not a Fait Accompli
Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard
Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleDid the Democrats become Calvinists when we weren't looking? Lately they've been talking an awful lot about predestination. They want to claim that Obamacare's victory is foreordained, that the health care debate is over and–surprise, surprise–the liberals won.So: Paul Krugman wrote on his blog that an “aura of inevitability” surrounds Obamacare. The Washington Post's health care blogger wrote that this month's pro-Obama vote in the Senate Finance Committee “convinced many that…
A National Deficit of Leadership
David Gergen, U.S. News & World Report
It is fashionable these days to decry the quality of American leaders, and why not?Not long ago, we celebrated our CEOs as the new masters of the universe; some paid themselves as if they thought so, too, and their faces graced the covers of magazines everywhere. But last year, that universe imploded, and taxpayers were forced to come to the rescue. As Bill George of the Harvard Business School argues, we have come to realize that the economic crisis was less a matter of subprime mortgages than subprime leadership.Washington has fared only a little better than Wall Street. A new Congress…
Staying in Afghanistan is a Mistake
Stephen Walt, The Nation