It’s not yet time to beat a dead horse, but it’s increasingly obvious that the Left’s horse is faltering badly before the finish line of grasping control of healthcare.
The Pew Research Center reports that public support for healthcare reforms is lower now than in 1993 for HillaryCare.
More centrist congressional Democrats are staking out a more moderate position than the Democrat Party’s more radical leadership.
Jennifer Rubin, at Commentary’s Contentions blog, chuckles at Leftist naïf Ezra Klein’s revealing the Senate Democrats are being forced to significantly scale back their grand scheme: “One has to laugh: no Santa and no universal healthcare plan that ‘holds down costs.’ ”
How much longer before President Obama has to throw this dead horse under the bus, or falls off his high-horse?
As the Wall Street Journal points out:
This was supposed to be a red-letter week for national health care, as Democrats started the process of hustling a quarter-baked bill through Congress to reorganize one-sixth of the economy on a partisan vote. Instead it was a fiasco.
Most of the devastation was wreaked by the Congressional Budget Office, which on Tuesday reported that draft legislation from the Senate Finance Committee would increase the federal deficit by more than $1.6 trillion over the next decade while only partly denting the population of the uninsured. The details haven't been made public, but the short version seems to be that President Obama's health boondoggle prescribes vast new spending without a coherent plan to pay for it even while failing to meet its own standards for social equity.
