When I saw the phrase sword of Damocles in the past, I sort of wondered what it looked like. Who was Damocles, anyway, and why does his sword hang over people’s heads? Well, that’s still a mystery, but how the sword looks to Democrats in Congress isn’t a mystery at all:
Cartoon in the Wall Street Journal by Chad Crowe
Kimberly Strassel’s latest article in the Journal is titled Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover. Her writing on health care legislation, and on many other subjects, is well-researched and pointed. Here’s a snippet:
Hundreds of thousands of health-insurance policies canceled. Companies dumping coverage and cutting employees’ hours. Premiums skyrocketing. And a website that reprises the experience of a Commodore 64.
The Democrats’ goal since the 2008 election, stated in other terms but pretty explicit nevertheless, has been to move the United States toward a European style welfare state. This goal has enough appeal that Obama won reelection in 2012. It has enough opponents that Republicans maintained a clear majority in the House of Representatives in the last electioin. This battle is not over, not by a long way.
