The Opposite Is True

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Bill Otis offers a good summary of the ways in which the health care debate has taken the luster off of the Obama presidency: Obama has really fumbled this heathcare business. It was going to be trouble to start with, because most of the country is happy with its health care and insurance. But the whole thing has exposed him in a way the press was heretofore able to cover up, but can't, or doesn't want to, now. First, so much for Mr. Post-partisan. Second, the totalitarian/thug side is on display big time, what with the report-your-fishy-neighbor to the White House. The Stasi should have done as well. Third, the outright lying. We can cover 46,000,000 more people but it's going to cost less!!! RIGHT, RIGHT. The savings that will pay for it all will come from trimming waste, fraud and abuse. RIGHT, RIGHT. (It's not just that nobody believes this, it's that the opposite is true, as it always is in government-run programs).