Friday, October 11, 2013

The Upside of Obamacare

So far, so bad--and that, writes Peter Wehner, is actually good:
We can now judge the president’s promises against his results, what he said he would do versus what he has actually done. The president is being assessed not by his rhetoric but by his performance. And his performance is, in almost every respect, simply dreadful. He combines two problematic qualities: dogmatism and ineptitude. 
As for the Affordable Care Act: It is, in conception and execution, emblematic of modern liberalism. This is what progressives wanted. It was what they fought for. And now they own it. It’s beginning to dawn on a few of them that it may well haunt them for years to come.
I disagree. If anything is emblematic of modern liberalism, it's the ability to amble through life while wearing rose-coloured blinkers that blind you to the dreadful albeit unintended consequences of your good intentions.

Has it ever dawned on American liberals that LBJ's Great Society has actually been catastrophic for the people it was supposed to help, engendering generations of helplessness, dependency and the poverty that comes when unmarried moms have kids and their baby-daddies take a vaca from responsibility? It has not. So why would liberals concede that Obamacare, which, after all, bears the name of their hero, the smartest, coolest, most well-intentioned president ever, is a failure?

2 comments:

Carlos Perera said...

The Great Society was never about helping downtrodden black Americans to succeed economically. It was--as LBJ's own confidential comments to fellow Democratic hierarchs make clear--a very expensive (to the taxpayer . . . and who cares about them?) political strategy to turn blacks into a dependent lumpenproletariat (while bribing the "talented tenth" to keep their mouths shut with jobs in the Federal bureaucracy and its state and local satellites), and hence dependable Dem voters. The Great Society has worked marvelously to achieve the real goals of its creators.

scaramouche said...

Well, we know what it really is. But we also know that it was advertised as something completely different. Same as Obamacare.