It's a Bad Bill

Michael Barone:

But sometimes in politics there is no course that leads to success. Disaster lies ahead whatever you do.

In this view, the Democrats' mistake was making government-directed health care a priority in the first place. They assumed that economic distress would make Americans more amenable to big government programs.

Economic distress? Americans want a focus on real job creation.

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It's a bad bill. Scrap it.