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From: LindyBill8/11/2009 4:31:37 PM
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A Simple Plan [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm just wondering. We constantly hear Democrats, starting with Obama, insist that Americans should have the same health-care options as members of Congress and the federal government. I seem to recall John Edwards demogoging this point relentlessly. Well, why not turn it around? Why shouldn't Democrats in Congress and the White House pledge to drop their current health insurance and agree to use whatever public plan they come up with? It will save taxpayers' money and satisfy all sorts of progressive nostrums about equality and whatnot. At minimum, this seems like a good question to ask Obamacare supporters at these town halls. Of course, if Congress did sign up for the public plan, the public plan would inexorably become gold-plated — or two-tier — right?

08/11 04:09 PMShare

I Wonder . . . [Jonah Goldberg]

If the Democratic press flack who ghost wrote the Pelosi-Hoyer "un-American" op-ed is keeping a low profile around the office this week. That's the amazing thing: that such a politically stupid line made it through various layers of professional scrutiny. I can only imagine how psyched the editors at USA Today were when they saw that in there. Shhhh don't say anything, they might take it out.

Oh: Sorry to disillusion anybody out there who thought Pelosi and Hoyer passed drafts of their oped back and forth like high-school students hammering out prose for the school paper.
The Corner on National Review Online (11 August 2009)
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