David Frum doesn't care for this reader e-mail:
Suppose some Republican members did act supremely badly yesterday. Saddling the nation with trillions of dollars of new debt seems a roundabout way to punish them for it. Too much writing about politics takes the form of movie reviews. The script failed, the part was poorly played, I didn’t like the show. But it’s not a show. Perhaps some of the Republican opposition has been hysterical or buffoonish or in some cases manipulative and deceptive. But it is the president’s plan and this party’s bills that will or will not become law, and their failings are not diminished one whit by the deficiencies of their opponents.
Trillions of dollars of new debt? It's a paid-for $900 billion over ten years. I agree we need to come back and grapple with healthcare costs in the context of overall budgetary reform. But not until the economy is healthier. And is someone who worked for George W. Bush honestly blaming Obama for trillions of dollars in new debt?
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