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In retrospect, it’s clear that Obama’s insistence on ramming through his 2,700-page Rube Goldberg legislative monstrosity in the dead of night seriously damaged the post-partisan brand he ran on in 2008. Obamacare clearly wasn’t the “hope and change” the candidate had promised. A Fox News poll in April found that by 55 percent to 37 percent, Americans thought members of Congress hadn’t read the bill and that the law wouldn’t have passed if they had read it.
Frank Bruni, a liberal New York Times columnist, spoke for a lot of liberals I know this week when he described Obama’s hapless position as a leader: “He’s beholden to lawmakers’ whims, buffeted by global winds, as much a spectator as an agent of the most important developments around him. . . . At times he looks dazed, and flails. To focus his economic message, he gave an unfocused 54-minute speech on the apparent theory that the more sentences in the mix, the greater the odds of a keeper.”
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Regardless of how the court rules, the health care law was a blunder of epic proportions. It will either be tossed in whole or in part or if not, the voters will make sure people are elected to toss it.
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