The president retreated to a demand that any bill he sign be revenue-neutral. But that’s classic misdirection: If the fierce urgency of health-care reform is to radically reduce costs that are producing budget-destroying deficits, revenue neutrality (by definition) leaves us on precisely the same path to insolvency that Obama himself declares unsustainable.It's not about the money, it's about the control.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Health Care Quote of the Day
From Charles Krauthammer:
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I agree that it's about control. But nevertheless I don't understand the motivation for lefties of the rank and file. Why would they assent to having their lives controled by government? What's in it for them?
I don't understand my Dem friends support for this guy. I think willful ignorance is part of it. They were glad to believe what the media said about Obama without asking over many questions. But even that just defers the mystery.
Somehow they have been persuaded that Obama's plans represent the "high road," that he's morally superior and hip all in one. By supporting him they are "avant garde" in a way. I think they see themselves basking in his glow, which is partly theirs too.
And "we," the foe, must be just as psychologically essential. We are the great unwashed, the "stupid" people who "don't get it." Superiority doesn't exist unless one has others over which one projects one's own high place. Pride needs a foil.
At least that's what I think we're seeing. However, I do not for the life of me understand the gullibility involved in accepting life as presented in these terms or the worshipful blindness involved in Obama's chic. When Republicans supported Bush, it was warts and all -- which is a very different thing from asserting that no warts exist, and a very far thing from not caring about the warts at all.
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