Obama Doubles Down

Wall Street Journal | Sep. 10, 2009 (Editorial)

Democrats have wanted President Obama to drop some of his cool and fight for their health-care agenda, and last night they weren’t disappointed. The President gave away very little on the substance of what Congressional leaders are proposing, even as he offered a rhetorical bow or two to the idea of compromise. The main message of his speech to Congress is that he is doubling down on his health-care bets and counting on the sheer inertia of Democratic ... Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Sep. 10, 2009

"The only way to stop it now is with a giant wave of popular opposition" -- this is little different than any other WSJ editorial I've read on health care over the past couple months, just more paranoid. Same generic talking points, coupled with an underlying tone of defeat. As a conservative response, this is pretty canned.

Thus he endorsed the public’s concern about the competence of government to manage one-sixth of the economy, only to finish with a soaring oration about the moral necessity of letting government do so.

The rhetoric will please his left flank, even as he and they know that divisions in his own party have already doomed that idea for now. Liberals will squawk when the Senate throws the public option over the side, but they know that Mr. Baucus’s plan gets them to the same destination, only over a longer period.

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