Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto: "We hope [ObamaCare] fails spectacularly because that would provide an emotionally satisfying dramatic conclusion. If Barack Obama is forced to spend, say, the last two years of his presidency contending with the undeniable failure of his signature initiative, that would be a fitting punishment for the hubris of his first two years, especially since the imposition of ObamaCare on an unwilling country was the main consequence of his hubris. We hope it fails quickly for an additional reason: to minimize the damage. ... The communist revolution would not have succeeded absent a critical mass of people hopeful communism would work. Nor would it have endured as long as it did if no one had an emotional interest in its perpetuation. Hope, in other words, poses a moral hazard: It can be a species of pathological altruism."
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:33:59 +0000
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