"Bipartisan Rhetoric, Far-Left Reform" [Michael G. Franc] via NRO:
"The soaring rhetoric certainly was there. And there were countless conservative-sounding references: How many times did he deploy words like "choice" and "competition" and "incentives" and "bargaining?" And there was even the Reaganesque riff where the president paid homage to our "self-reliance, our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government."
"Conservatives, moreover, would raise few if any qualms with how the president defined the challenge, or even how he characterized the goals he seeks to achieve. ("It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don't. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.")
"But a yawning gap remains between the president's pleasing rhetoric and the hard reality of what still lurks within those thousands of pages of legislative text. ..."
http://corner.nationalreview.com/page4.p
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