Tuesday, August 11, 2009

UNTANGLING THE SPAGHETTI

SteynOnline - UNTANGLING THE SPAGHETTI
"But Obama believes in “the fierce urgency of now”, and fierce it is.
That’s where all the poor befuddled sober centrists who can’t understand why the Democrats keep passing incoherent 1,200-page bills every week are missing the point.
If “health care” were about health care, the devil would be in the details.
But it’s not about health or costs or coverage; it’s about getting over the river and burning the bridge.
It doesn’t matter what form of governmentalized health care gets passed as long as it passes.
Once it’s in place, it will be “reformed”, endlessly, but it will never be undone.
Same with a lot of the other stuff: Keep throwing the spaghetti at the wall. The Republicans may pick off the odd strand but, if you keep it coming fast enough, by the end of Obama’s first year the wall will be a great writhing mass of pasta entwined like copulating anacondas in some jungle simulacrum of Hef’s grotto.
And that’s a good image of how government will slither into every corner of your life: You can try and pull one of those spaghetti strings out but it’ll be all tied up with a hundred others and you’ll never untangle them."

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