Leftwing hacks at Newsweek and The New Republic, as well as Matthew Yglesias, screech that the unruly patriotic bourgeois is “ungovernable”.
Charles Krauthammer weighs in:
It’s 2010, and the first-year agenda of a popular and promising young president has gone down in flames. Barack Obama’s two signature initiatives — cap-and-trade and health-care reform — lie in ruins.
……He failed because the utter implausibility of its central promise — expanded coverage at lower cost — led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt. More broadly, the Democrats failed because, thinking the economic emergency would give them the political mandate and legislative window, they tried to impose a left-wing agenda on a center-right country. The people said no, expressing themselves first in spontaneous demonstrations, then in public opinion polls, then in elections — Virginia, New Jersey and, most emphatically, Massachusetts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803413.html
The minute we become the Left’s idea of “governable”, is when America fails.
Related post:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/matthew-yglesias-americans-are-ungovernable/