Angry About Obamacare? Blame Bush
Phil Klein, with some inconvenient truth for Republicans:
The question conservatives should be asking though, is how did we get in this position in the first place? How come, over the course of two elections, Democrats were able to take back the White House and amass substantial majorities in both chambers of Congress, allowing them to enact this sweeping legislation with no Republican votes – and huge defections in their own party? How could a generally right-of-center nation be taken over by liberals from Chicago and San Francisco?
The answer, of course, is that none of this would have been possible without George W. Bush — or more broadly speaking, Bush era Republicanism. While they were in power, Republicans squandered an opportunity to push free market health care solutions. When they did use their power to pass major legislation, it was for policies like the big government Medicare prescription drug plan, which was (until today) the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society.
Elections have consequences, my friends, and we’re a few strokes of Obama’s pen away from living with some nasty ones.
This may well be the rock-hard bottom from which a renewed, resurgent limited government movement is going to spring. But that thin silver lining is coming at a heavy cost.
