Obama and the mainstream media are going to lie about the deal. So why quibble about Buchanan's analysis? Buchanan does a good job of casting the deal in positive substance and sound-bite form so we can simply and credibly say, We won! Demos lost! Obama caved!

Obama's demonstrates again his ignorance of job creation. All employers know that health care and disability insurance are very different. Health care is for medical bill payment; disability insurance is for salary replacement. An employee does not need disability insurance; her salary is paid as job sick leave benes. Disability insurance is for the self employed, who don't have sick leave benes. Since sick leave is greatly abused,disability coverage and claims are handled real strictly. So denial of Mother's cancer disability claim is not surprising. What is surprising: that Mother had disability insurance as an employee; that Mother's "son and lawyer" wouldn't spread his wealth to help Mother.

Yes, "we" were more moral then. "We" equals society as a whole. You're just picking on the immoral few. By doing so, you show your true colors as just another member of the mindless herd forming the society of today. So you think you would have called out black segregation if you lived among it in the '60s? Doubt it. I know a fine man who played on a college national champion football team in the early 60s. He says they had 3 Negro players on the team, including a unanimous All American. On the road, segregated hotels were the rule. At home, he'd spend weekends at one of his Negro teammate's home. It's the way it was, but in the personal sphere of the man's world, he manned up. People who make your kind of argument don't man up;...

Please add to the waiver list: Pelosi, Reid, Obama, et al.

Right on. As Justice Holmes put it, more or less, The life of the law is not logic, it is experience. That is why fancy Kagan-type concepts like Shariah law have no place in American jurisprudence; its not part of the American experience and incorporating it would be to graft a dullard's head on a sack of potatoes and calling it a monkey.

So the grunts talked stink about the brass. What's new. In the comic strips this past Sunday, you have the store clerks in "Retail" talking stink about the bosses and "Sally Forth" and her superviser agonizing about the company's future in this bad economy, and a few weeks back Alice and her buddies in "Cul de Sac" were screeching among themselves about having to give an end-of-school hug to their teacher; talking stink about the bosses is infused throughout our daily lives. Remember what the creme dela creme pilots did in "The Right Stuff"; brashness is an element of the right stuff. Remember that "The Right Stuff" was serialized during its writing by Rolling Stone magazine, the magazine that extolled the virtue to Clinton's...

In addition to making individuals pay for their own routine medical care, make individuals pay for their own health insurance.

That will bring the cost of health insurance down.

Compare: In Hawaii, employers must pay for the health insurance of all 20+ employees.

This requirement drives up the cost of doing business and, spirolina, it drives up the cost of heath insurance (including because employees willy nilly add mandates to their freebie shopping cart eg required coverage of all patients for exotic stuff like accupuncture), which, spirolina, drives up the cost of doing business.

The reason for employer-paid health insurance stems from wage controls made necessary by WWII.

How's this for reform: ...