In Financial Times, a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/706bbcde-640d-11de-a818-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1"Clive Crook says it perfectly/a, as the Fort Worth Police Department claims it was just doing its job.br /br /In case that’s not clear, let’s let Clive speak in detail:br /blockquoteThe cap-and-trade bill is a travesty. … The Waxman-Markey bill, while going through the complex motions of creating a carbon abatement regime, takes care to neutralise itself. …br /br /If you regard universal access to health insurance as an urgent priority, as I do, the draft healthcare bills are easier to defend as at least a step in the right direction. Nonetheless, the same evasive mindset – the appetite for change without change – has guided their design. If you are happy with your present insurance, the bills’ designers keep telling voters, you will see no difference. …br /br /The president has cast himself not as a leader of reform, but as a cheerleader for “reform” – meaning anything, really, that can plausibly be called reform, however flawed./blockquotebr /Clive has a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/706bbcde-640d-11de-a818-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1"plenty more/a like that, ending with this bottom-line question:br /blockquoteFirst one must ask whether the bills really do represent progress, however modest./blockquotebr /On the two biggest issues, the answer is clearly no.br /br /Obama is lying out his ass with his claims to be able to get a future, second, climate-control bill passed when he didn’t do more of a leadership job on this one.br /br /As for national healthcare? “Change” without a single-payer option isn’t change.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-2535699502969199788?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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