Here* is the best column that David Brooks has ever written, indeed, the best that he may ever write for the local liberal New York paper, since his employment there is now surely numbered in days.
At the Club for Growth Winter Economic Meeting in Palm Beach last weekend, one of the other participants told Sherry and me that pilots are warned against focusing on their target so intently that they forget to fly the plane, a syndrome known as "target fixation." Today, the Democrats are fixated on semi-universal coverage for people who don't care to pursue it themselves, and are flying their majority into the ground.
Too bad for them, because their crash will very likely ensure that any bill they pass into law will be repealed three years from now.
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* Well, it was there, until the veil of secrecy came down! Register if you want. I don't.
