Conservatives
can't name one previous policy of theirs that helped the nation
Andrew
Burstein and Nancy Isenberg in Salon
Republicans are determined to dismantle Obamacare,
not because they have any chance at succeeding–the president’s veto can’t be
overridden–but because it’s of a piece with everything else they’ve been doing
to embarrass this two-term chief executive.
They do so, they say, in the name of conservatism.
Now, name one program since Eisenhower, initiated by
conservatives in Congress, that the nation looks back on and breathes a
collective sigh, on the order of: “Whew, we dodged a bullet when we reversed
that progressive misstep.” The left reflects proudly on the strongest part of
its history:
