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March 29, 2010

A Tarnished Presidency

Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard

President Obama's theory has always been that once health care reform passed, people would rally to it.

 

 

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. 

The liberal line is that President Obama has secured his place in history by signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. And secured it he has. Henceforth Obama will be remembered as the man who accelerated America's mad dash toward bankruptcy. He will be remembered as the leader who promoted a culture of dependency. He will be remembered as the figure who sacrificed a dream of national unity upon the altar of big government liberalism. It's true: Obama is now a president of consequence. And almost...

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Related Topics: Obama, President , America, Obama administration, Middle East

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