Recent political reporting
suggests that Republican leaders are in a state of high anxiety,
trapped between an angry base that still views Obamacare as the moral
equivalent of slavery and the reality that health reform is the law of
the land and is going to happen.
But those leaders don’t deserve any sympathy. For one thing, that
irrational base is a Frankenstein monster of their own creation. Beyond
that, everything I’ve seen indicates that members of the Republican
elite still don’t get the basics of health reform — and that this lack
of understanding is in the process of turning into a major political
liability.
On the unstoppability of Obamacare: We have this system in which
Congress passes laws, the president signs them, and then they go into
effect. The Affordable Care Act went through this process, and there is
no legitimate way for Republicans to stop it.
