Perhaps the hysterical reactions of so many on the Left to anything less than a total government takeover of health care is balanced by the furious opposition of conservatives who predict that the American experiment in limited government will effectively be repealed if health care passes.
Can it be that anything this massive and this massively controversial ought to fail? Can it be that the Constitution is functioning just as it was intended to function? The Senate’s former parliamentarian describes that body as a place where bad bills go to die. This is one instance, perhaps, where we can favor mercy killing.
Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell, a contributing editor at Townhall.com, is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and the American Civil Rights Union and is on the board of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He is the co-author of the new bestseller
The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency, on sale in bookstores everywhere..
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