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WASHINGTON -- There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. He has shown himself to be a timid progressive.
His timidity was displayed when he flinched from fighting for the boldness the nation needs -- a transition from the irrationality of employer-provided health insurance. His progressivism is an attitude of genteel regret about the persistence of politics.
Employer-paid insurance is central to...
In the Wilsonian Tradition
Your huddled masses longing to breath free.
The wretched refuse of your teaming shore.
Send these, the tired, tempest tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the open door.
It worked for generations until the Progressives got busy. There was never a time without trouble or struggle but people kept coming, and still do, and their grandchildren prospered. Even the children of slaves are considerably better off than citizens in much of Africa.
Where can the wretched people of Detroit flee, now that progressive policy has had its reign. Cuba, Venezuela, Greece, Russia, California?