In his latest column, David Harsanyi voices several legitimate concerns over Obama's envisioned health care reform. By the way, Obama's large grassroots campaign operation is having its troubles shifting gears to push health care. If they can't get the PR right, how will it be different for the plan itself? Part of their plans involve bombarding pols and the public with personal stories of long suffering Americans who lack coverage, not that we haven't long suffered that tactic already.
But as Harsanyi points out, one truly big question is, what's the rush? The stimulus package just showed us what rushing can do. We don't need to rush, we need time to understand precisely what Obama has in mind. Or is that the only reason for the rush? Besides, I thought Obama was elected to do away with the politics of fear, not make it is his preferred tactic, as David points out?
Weren't we promised some methodical and deliberate governance from President Barack Obama? Where is it?
The president claims that we must pass a government-run health insurance program — possibly the most wide-ranging and intricate government undertaking in decades — yesterday or a "ticking time bomb" will explode.
If all this terrifying talk sounds familiar, it might be because the president applies the same fear-infused vocabulary to nearly all his hard-to-defend policy positions. You'll remember the stimulus plan had to be passed without a second's delay or we would see 8.7 percent unemployment. We're almost at 10.
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