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I get a weekly email blog from the National Review, which included this gem:
It speaks for itself, so I have nothing to add. But I thought I would pass it along for your delectation.
The late senator Alan Cranston had a great line during the Watergate hearings: "Those who tried to warn us back at the beginning of the New Deal of the dangers of one-man rule that lay ahead on the path we were taking toward strong, centralized government may not have been so wrong."
Anyway, I bring all this up because I think Nancy Pelosi's now-familiar promise to get the bill passed is a good synopsis of my point: "We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health-care reform passed for the American people."
Now, keep in mind, that it seems not to have occurred to Pelosi that these "gates" and "fences" are not merely hypothetical obstacles, but real obstacles put there for good reason. Few people put up fences and gates for no reason. Usually, people who disregard locked fences and closed gates do so because they are trying to go some place they shouldn't go. Most often, we call them "criminals."
It speaks for itself, so I have nothing to add. But I thought I would pass it along for your delectation.