The Homa Files

Excerpted fron RCP: The Liberals’ Weaselly Panic, by Rich Lowry, December 15, 2009 

President Obama and Harry Reid can rightly claim to be making history.

If he passes health-care reform, they’ll depend on a series of historic “firsts.”

• It’d be the first time Congress had passed a major new entitlement program without bipartisan support;
  [Unless you count the Congressional dude from Louisiana.]
• It’d be the first time it passed such a program without popular support;
  [A CNN poll last week found the public against it by a nearly 2-1 margin.]
• It’d be the first time that such a large-scale program would be passed without anybody knowing (or particularly caring) what’s in it.
  [This is bipartisanship Harry Reid style – nontransparency for everyone. Who needs openness and legislative details when you’re remaking one-sixth of the economy?’

Full article:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/15/the_liberals_weaselly_panic_99557.html

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