Our Problem Is a Lack of Health Care -- the Moral Variety

There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday's health care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama's baby. It was plain that "pro-life" Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization they needed to cast aside a position that was never really a principle. That it came in the form of an executive order with the credibility of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is of little consequence. It was also predictable that the Monday after would bring talk about the extinguishment of liberty and the republic, and heads hanging so low that good Americans could look up and see their shoelaces. Yet there is a somewhat larger view a person can take here. It is one that distinguishes between symptoms -- even very severe ones -- and the underlying disease. Some have asked a very predictable question: "Where were you the day the...(Read Full Article)

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