Pretty Sad, GOP

Mickey Kaus opines that Democrats stand to gain and lost about the same amount of political good will by passing Obamacare as they do by scrapping it all together. He’s may be right, and in any case has a better basis for an opinion than me.

I’m saying the protection they get in the fall from passing the bill (and not having the sky fall) is roughly equivalent to the protection they get from bailing and admitting error. And they’ll be buying themselfs a huge advantage in the next election, and the one after that, when the sky continues to not fall–and maybe even when some of the benefits of the plan become apparent (though ”benefits” are not really required to disprove Republican predictions, only the absence of disaster).

It’s pitiful that the GOP is so feckless that making a political issue out of Democrat’s health care “reform” (assuming it passes) in upcoming elections requires the bill to be an epic fail, rather than merely ineffective. Earth to GOP: take a lesson, and watch Reason TV’s pieces on the Lasik model and Veterinary care in America. You will understand why the health care bill already is an epic fail, learn to articulate that idea to voters, and hopefully be stimulated to craft effective policies to get Government out of the way so that the same market forces that have driven down the price of everything from non-essential elective surgeries, HD flat screen TV prices, iPods, to pho can do the same to health care.

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