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Just a note on a small mistake made in the printing of the generous encouragement Gingrich offered our President and Congress. "Commentary" ran at the top. It should have been "Political Advertisement," should it not? Constance McCutcheon, MUNICH, GERMANY...
...there's no way to brace for the morass of misanthropy in her new novel So Much for That (Harper; 433 pages), which attacks the American health care system more savagely than any Democrat in Congress has but at no small cost to the reader. The first half overflows with the rantings of a half-dozen furious characters. It's brave, bold and so abrasive that you almost want to give up. You feel as if you're trapped in Michael Moore's head, being lectured on all his pet subjects. I was reading, but still, I almost went deaf...
...them is: When is the right time? If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama also had harsh words for the health-insurance industry, citing a need for greater accountability and more options for consumers. Under pressure from the White House to wrap up negotiations, Democrats in Congress struggled to iron out lingering differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill...
JOHN ROBERTS, U.S. Chief Justice, questioning whether Supreme Court Justices should have to attend the yearly address, after having had to sit "expressionless" while some members of Congress cheered Obama's Jan. 27 criticism of the court's decision to overturn a ban on corporate political spending...
...party brethren, who have been anticipating and dreading months of over-the-top rhetoric about the ruinous consequences of a Democrats-only effort to bring the U.S. into the community of nations that make health care available to all their citizens. Indeed, not every Democratic member of Congress has embraced the White House theme that doing the right thing for the nation is more important than preserving individual seats in the Capitol. But enough hearts and minds were changed to allow the Obama-Pelosi tag team to get its majority at long last. (See 10 players in health care reform...