Kinsley, another member of the Permanently Raised Eyebrow club.
Posted on 08/28/2009 9:57:46 AM PDT by La Lydia
The reason Americans have turned against health-care reform, after electing President Obama in part for promising it, is simple: Despite protestations to the contrary, Americans don't like change. You wouldn't know it, of course, if you listen to politicians in high-pander mode, or to talk radio hosts of the right or TV pundits of the left. Or, for that matter, if you listened to the president of the United States. You would think that while we might disagree about what kind of change we want, Americans are in total agreement that the current situation is intolerable in all areas...But as soon as it seems that change might actually happen -- as soon as we leave the abstract for the particular -- we panic... ...of course, the opposition party has gotten away with some grotesque misrepresentations. But that will always be true...there will always be a Betsy McCaughey sharpening her pencils and cackling as she underlines promising sub-clauses. Obama thought he could avoid this by not supplying the document. He thought that Hillary Clinton's big mistake in the 1990s was too much detail...
The similarities to the last time we tried health-care reform are striking. Bill Clinton had campaigned on a call for change...Rising costs and increasing numbers of uninsured made the system seem intolerable... Afraid of being tagged the party that prevented change, Republicans were about to give up and compromise. Then GOP apparatchik extraordinaire Bill Kristol blew the whistle. He said, better to be thought of as against all change than to be tarred as in favor of any particular change. It seemed like a lunatic idea at first, but Kristol turned out to be right -- politically... ...Republicans will pay for having killed it, if indeed they do kill it. But they didn't pay the last time....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
ah but *we* did change the health care system. Medicare part c (advantage) in 1997
And one more thing, you elitist snob. Bill Kristol is a "GOP apparatchik". So what does that make Van Jones, Rahm Emmanuel, and Mark Lloyd? Would these maybe be COMMUNIST apparatchiks?
Now we know that not everyone will be covered and the plan will not save money, according to the non-partisan CBO. In fact, it will cost all of us a LOT more AND will bring about the loss of many jobs.
The people do not oppose change for change sake; they oppose changing to something worse than they have, and which does not meet the fundamental promises that were made. That is logical. Why don't these dummies get it?
“Americans are in total agreement that the current situation is intolerable in all areas...”
Typical Washington Post BS...haven’t they seen the poll that has 85% of those polled are satisfied with their current health care?
Have any of you wondered how Kinsley, Clift, and others of their ilk have continued to earn a living in "news/journalism"?
only one word for it--brainwashed!
vaudine
The thing about his TV appearances was that he is such a miserable little worm.
However, to extrapolate--his wormy, anemic appearance is a physical projection of the essence of his beliefs/actions--like the story "The Portrait of Dorian Gray".
vaudine
Kinsley, another member of the Permanently Raised Eyebrow club.
The fey elite like Kinsley would like to vote in a new public. How can the public be so stupid as to not go along with a plan nobody has read? Why not change for change sake? Why so not-liberal??
History is repeating itself
Let’s hope history is indeed repeating itself. It means a new Reagan is only three years away. (or a Reaganette, as the case may be...)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.