The Homa Files

Note that the article is from the Washington Post, not WSJ or IBD.

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Excerpted from Wash Post: Obama is Choosing Liberal Divisiveness, March 10, 2010

Whatever the legislative fate of health reform, the Democratic health reformers have

• Divided Democrats while uniting Republicans,
• Returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts,
• Employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption,
• Squandered the president’s public standing,
• Lowered public regard for Congress,
• Sucked the oxygen from other agenda items,
• Re-engaged the abortion battle,
• Produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts,
• Raised questions about the continued governability of America,
• Caused the White House chief of staff to distance himself from the president’s ambitions.

Quite a list of accomplishments.

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Early on Obama rejected the one, genuinely bipartisan health reform proposal — made by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Bob Bennett, R-Utah — that would have ended employer-based insurance and given individuals a deduction to buy their own coverage from a menu of private insurance options.

Wyden has turned out to be the ignored prophet of the health debate:

“If you … just pound it through on a partisan vote, you will have people practically as soon as the ink is dry looking to have it repealed.”

Full article:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/10/obama_is_choosing_liberal_divisiveness.html

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