Blog Focus On Health Care Opponents
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Boo! Health care passed! This is the fault of those bureaucrat-loving idiots! Less government, and stuff!
That's basically the sentiment out of the camp of those who aren't too happy about the health care bill being passed last night. Some reactions:
• The Corner — We'll start off with a rather alarmist outlook of this bill's impact. Mark Steyn predicts a radical change in the relationship between the citizen and state and a decline in the defense budget. "Longer wait times, fewer doctors, more bureaucracy, massive IRS expansion, explosive debt, the end of the Pax Americana, and global Armageddon. Must try to look on the bright side . . ."
• Frum Forum — Simply titled: "Waterloo." David Frum, who was an ex-George W. Bush speechwriter, you'd think would be talking about the bill that will undo Obama's presidency. But no! This is the ultimate defeat of the Republicans. "We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat."
• Works and Days — Victor Davis Hanson sees this as a power grab. "I understand the reasoning behind Obamism and am familiar with the feel-good, this-is-our-moment rhetoric of egalitarianism. But please at least spare us the fictions and simply be honest: Obama wants a state-run America, somewhere to the left of France or Denmark, a United States unexceptional and merely one of many nations at the UN."
• Capital Hill — Here are 20 ways outlined by David Hogberg that the bill will curtail individual freedoms. "You are young and don’t want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the 'privilege.' "
• The Atlantic — And now for a not-so-defeatist look by Megan McArdle: this is just going to encourage even more strongarming of comprehensive bills: "One cannot help but admire Nancy Pelosi's skill as a legislator. But it's also pretty worrying. Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority?"
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