Thursday, October 24, 2013
Thought of the Day
In the course of a defiant speech at the White House, the president
rode bravely into the realm of magical thinking: “It’s time for folks to
stop rooting for its failure,” Obama said, adopting the panicked tones
of a cheap infomercial salesman. Why? “Because hardworking middle-class
families are rooting for its success.” For her part, Nancy Pelosi
offered her own insinuation yesterday, suggesting that Republicans who continued to oppose the law were guilty of “sabotage.”
I should make it clear that I have precisely no intention whatsoever of ceasing to “root for failure.” I am actively hoping for the abject and embarrassing deterioration of Obamacare and I am not remotely ashamed to admit it. I loathe the law as a piece of public policy, as a means by which federal involvement in health care and society is being expanded rather than reduced, and as an unlovely example of the arrogance that presidents in the modern era have come to exhibit. Like Ed Rogers, “I would like to see the project’s collapse deter those who think a bigger, more domineering U.S. government is the answer to our problems.” And, like David Harsanyi, I want the project to fail “so hard that any residual perception among voters that any part of it was prudent policy is completely eliminated.”
Charles Cooke, noticing, as I have, that the left nearly always blames its failures on someone else--wreckers, hoarders, saboteurs, Kulaks, Kochs or Republicans.
I should make it clear that I have precisely no intention whatsoever of ceasing to “root for failure.” I am actively hoping for the abject and embarrassing deterioration of Obamacare and I am not remotely ashamed to admit it. I loathe the law as a piece of public policy, as a means by which federal involvement in health care and society is being expanded rather than reduced, and as an unlovely example of the arrogance that presidents in the modern era have come to exhibit. Like Ed Rogers, “I would like to see the project’s collapse deter those who think a bigger, more domineering U.S. government is the answer to our problems.” And, like David Harsanyi, I want the project to fail “so hard that any residual perception among voters that any part of it was prudent policy is completely eliminated.”
Charles Cooke, noticing, as I have, that the left nearly always blames its failures on someone else--wreckers, hoarders, saboteurs, Kulaks, Kochs or Republicans.
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:10 AM 
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Arnold Kling has a good post this morning on the topic of management of a technology product.
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-obamacare-suitsgeeks-divide/
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-obamacare-suitsgeeks-divide/
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BTW, look what they're doing to our Army:
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2013/10/diversity-thursday_24.html
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