Heave Sent
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama’s legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country’s history.
That’s the lead in a news story, let me observe, not an editorial.
I could just as objectively write:
Senate Democrats shoved through a bloated mess of a health care bill, without having read it, over objections of Republicans, who despaired at the size and reach of a federal government unimaginable to the Founding Fathers, and reservations of moderate Democrats, whose misgivings were overcome with goodies totaling billions of dollars, for the benefit of a president who misled and prevaricated to get a bill, any bill, as a personal tribute to his grace and majesty.
Slanted, perhaps, but no more so than the AP lead, and a little closer to the mark.
Good for them, and good for him—may they choke on it.
Buck O'Fama said,
December 24, 2009 @ 11:55 am
This bill is unprecedented; just like the sinking of the Titanic.