Read Peggy Noonan's Commentary: Common Sense May Sink ObamaCare.
The common wisdom the past week has been that whatever challenges health care faces, the president will at least get something because he has a Democratic House and Senate and they’re not going to let their guy die. He’ll get this or that, maybe not a new nationalized system but some things, and he’ll be able to declare some degree of victory.
And this makes sense. But after the news conference, I found myself wondering if he’d get anything.
And this from Byron York: Obamacare Haunted By Big Promises of Stimulus.
"People are less trusting now."
That diminished trust can be traced directly to the stimulus. When Obama and his Democratic allies pushed it through Congress, they spoke constantly of "crisis" and warned of "catastrophe" if their bill was not passed. So the public, ready to give the new president a chance, supported him, even though the stimulus spent billions on the pet projects of Democratic lawmakers.
Again, I think that the failure to recognize the severity of the economic downturn is having an effect that our betters are just not picking up.
Update from Instapundit: A “TERRIBLE TIME” to raise the minimum wage.
What can I say? Not a clue as to how real growth is created.
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