Government health care—whether you want it or not

Clinton had sensible Tip O’Neill as his Speaker of the House. Obama has Nanny Pelosi. She wants this monument to herself and is pushing it like she does her husband to buy her the next pearl necklace. She is good at twisting arms to get her way, and brinksmanship like this often comes down to who blinks first. Given Madam Speaker’s Botox levels (ironically provided in ample supply by our current system), she should have the upper hand.

Obama needs to put aside his massive ego and scrap this self-aggrandizing mess of a health care bill that even he does not understand. Then he needs to take a deep, cleansing breath. When Clinton lost his bid for HillaryCare and then the 1994 mid-term elections by a landslide, he learned from the debacle and became the most successful Democratic president in modern times.

Ron Hart is a libertarian op-ed humorist whose new book, “No Such Thing as a Pretty Good Alligator Wrestler,” is available on Amazon or at RonaldHart.com.