The Obamacare Summit Farce

Obama went on for so long at the end that all I could think of was Bill Clinton's convention keynote address in 1988, and everyone applauding when he finally said, "And in conclusion..."! There are some great comments over at NRO's The Corner. Kathryn Jean Lopez mentions screaming at the TV (which I was doing myself); while Jay Nordlinger has this astute observation:

"This health-care summit was a bad idea for the Democrats for this reason: They have long benefited from a perception — a perception greatly abetted by the media: The Republicans don’t care about health care, they don’t know about health care, they are the Party of No. All the ideas and caring are on the Democratic side. It is not so, and it has never been so. And now everybody knows it."

Gee, and all this time I thought all we Republicans wanted to do was starve children and kill patients!