So you're a liberal and your holy grail for the better part of a century has been 'national healthcare'. For the first time in 46 years you get a supermajority in Congress and a Liberal President. First time in 46 frickin' years. In the teeth of popular opposition you pass a 2,700 page monstrosity of a law, you go so far as to commit accounting fraud to get it passed. As a direct result you endure the worst midterm electoral drubbing in modern history.
But it was all worth it. You achieved the left's greatest objective. Despite the chaos of implementation and that most of the law will need to be rewritten, you have achieved the goal. National health care is a fact and nothing can change that.
Yet it turns out that it's probably unconstitutional. How can that be? After all, the President, we are told, is a 'Constitutional Scholar' with 20 years experience teaching at the University of Chicago. How did he miss that? How did such a 'scholar' not consider the constitutional risks to this law?
As a direct result of the President's incompetence in his area of expertise the left's dream is probably shattered - and it will likely be another 50 years before you have another chance.
So if you're a liberal, why would you want to reelect him? As for me, I'm finding that 'ol Barry is sorta' growin' on me....
Jimmy Taranto has more here.
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