He rends my heart because he is so right and recognizes the stakes: Now is the time to write stories about how strategically and politically insane it would be for the House to not find a way to pass the legislation. If they fail to do so, the Republicans will be the writers of history--because the victors, not the vanquished, get the pen and the paper to do so. They will get to define what was in it and why it died. And this will have implications not just about the past but the future. Republican will say, and more effectively (but no less inaccurately) than ever, that, given the chance, the Democrats will be right back at it again with their "evil, secret fantasy to take over the health care system." They will more successfully (and inaccurately) define "it" as being a deficit busting, government take-over that will ration care and harm seniors.
One more chilling Cohn crie de coeur
One more chilling Cohn crie de coeur
One more chilling Cohn crie de coeur
He rends my heart because he is so right and recognizes the stakes: Now is the time to write stories about how strategically and politically insane it would be for the House to not find a way to pass the legislation. If they fail to do so, the Republicans will be the writers of history--because the victors, not the vanquished, get the pen and the paper to do so. They will get to define what was in it and why it died. And this will have implications not just about the past but the future. Republican will say, and more effectively (but no less inaccurately) than ever, that, given the chance, the Democrats will be right back at it again with their "evil, secret fantasy to take over the health care system." They will more successfully (and inaccurately) define "it" as being a deficit busting, government take-over that will ration care and harm seniors.