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Why Obama Won’t Listen to Reason on Obamacare
He believes health insurance has to be comprehensive. Conservatives disagree. Therefore, he says, they are intransigent.
Listen to me.
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One of President Obama’s cherished conceits is that disagreement with him can have no rational basis, and it was the theme of his most recent speech in defense of his health-care law.
Only “ideology” and “politics” are keeping Republicans from working with him to expand Obamacare’s reach. He himself is, as always in his self-portraits, the picture of reasonableness, willing to accept Republicans’ ideas if only they would operate in good faith instead of holding “60-something repeal votes.”