Bill Kristol has a great piece at his blog on WaPo where he calls out Obama for not doing what a plurality of Americans want him to do; scrap the current reform fiasco and start over:He said, "I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last." This suggests how grandiloquent his self-understanding is. After all, even if he were to prevail with some form of his legislation, others would come along with further and other reforms. Obama really isn't our last, best hope for public policy changes in this area -- or in any other. And the American public isn't buying it. A poll released today shows that 49 percent of Americans oppose "the health care reform plans being discussed in Congress," while only 34 percent approve; 36 percent "strongly" oppose the plans while only 16 percent "strongly" support them. Furthermore, when asked what the president and Congress should now do about health care, 42 percent choose...(Read Full Post)