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On Health Care, Should Dems Fear Failure or Success?
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Nov 24, 2009 10:58am |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Rich Lowry |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Otto von Bismarck at one point called the prospect of Germany waging preventive war against other European powers “committing suicide out of fear of death.”
Little did the Iron Chancellor know that he was forecasting 21st-century Democratic political strategy. Democrats so fear the consequences of failing to pass Obamacare that they’ve convinced themselves that embracing $370 billion worth of tax increases and more than $400 billion worth of Medicare cuts is good for them. This will long make for a compelling case study in the Annals of Abnormal Political Psychology.
Tax hikes undid Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton (Bush lost his presidency, Clinton his congressional majority), and Medicare cuts undid Speaker Newt Gingrich (taking the air out of his “Republican revolution”). All of those figures undertook their foolhardy exertions in order to reduce the deficit. Democrats will ingest their double dose of taxes and Medicare cuts on behalf of legislation that almost certainly will increase an already $1 trillion deficit. It’s fiscal pain for no fiscal gain. |
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