...is the whole health reform efforts by Obama/Dems: Charles Krauthammer's brilliant deconstruction follows:
(via NRO) :"On Nancy Pelosi’s shifting statements on including a public option in health-care legislation:"
"It’s a perfect example of the incoherence on the Democrats on all of this. And she is reflecting the president's incoherence.
"On the one hand — here we are eight months into this administration, three months into a really active, vigorous debate on health care, and two days before the president's great speech — nobody has any idea what's in it, and even he probably doesn't.
"So, on the one hand he's saying we're in a crisis and we have to act and it has to be done by last August, and then he doesn't even know as of today what it is, and he's asking immediate action on something that he doesn't even know about. That's number one.
"But secondly, underlying all this is unease about his intentions. Obama is a man who believes in the government-run [single-payer] system. He has said that several years ago. He has now disavowed it. But clearly people understand that the public option is a way to achieve, ultimately, a government-run system…a single-payer system. But he can't admit it, because in America it is not going to happen. He himself has said that tactically you can't be in favor of a single-payer system.
"He also says he will never talk about rationing. But he has said it in public, and he has said it in interviews, and he says it in private [that he is] troubled about the hip replacement his grandmother had when she was very sick and ill and terminal. He clearly thinks about rationing.
"He thinks it's important, but, again, he can't say it."
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