Health Care Reform or Bust

Charlie Cook: “At just about every step, Obama has pushed ahead on health care
reform, even when it would have been more practical to put it aside,
waiting perhaps until the economy stabilized or until the public was
more accepting of the law. He most recently chose to plow ahead when the
apparatus to implement the ACA had huge problems. Warnings inside the
administration were ignored. If perseverance were the only virtue, the
president and congressional Democrats would be the most virtuous people
around and assured a place in heaven. But sometimes balance and reality
should intervene. They certainly did not here.”