Obamacare meets Twitter

Obamacare meets Twitter

President Obama is a clever and ambitious man. And he has surrounded himself with a clever and ambitious staff.

This bright crew understood from the outset that time would determine if they would succeed with their health care plan.

They understood that their plan, which would require massive new expenditures, new taxes, and major new government interventions, had to be done quickly if it would get done at all.

They understood that it had to be done while the president's approval ratings were still high so that Congress would bend to his will. And that it had to breeze through and...