Professor Krugman, in a column headlined "Conservatism's Monstrous Endgame" - his hysterical partisanship grows more tedious and more embarrassing with each column - complains that the ruling is the work of a "Partisan Republican judge" engaged in an "Abuse of power." You'll note that Professor Krugman here mirrors President Donald Trump's habit of dismissing as "Partisan" the work of judges who annoy him.
Republicans hate the law - but Democrats have found a lot to dislike about it, too.
Like the Palestinians, Republicans rarely miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, and their contribution to the 2008 health-care debate was simply to repeat in Manchurian Candidate fashion: "We have the best health-care system in the world." They never quite got around to asking why so many people were displeased with it.
The Democrats had what they believed was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to move bigly on health care, and they had enough votes that they did not require the support of a single Republican.
We have Professor Krugman writing in the New York Times every week that "Good people can't be good Republicans," that "It is now impossible to have intellectual integrity and a conscience while remaining a Republican in good standing." And if the Affordable Care Act fails, that must be because of Republican wreckers and saboteurs.
The project of learning to cooperate with citizens who have political inclinations and commitments that are at odds with your own has real value not because there is some metaphysical virtue in moderation but because there is a real, practical, here-and-now small-r republican virtue in stability.
Democrats in the majority act like they'll never lose again; Republicans in the minority act like they'll never win again.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/obamacare-program-paul-krugman-sabotage-claim/
Republicans hate the law - but Democrats have found a lot to dislike about it, too.
Like the Palestinians, Republicans rarely miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, and their contribution to the 2008 health-care debate was simply to repeat in Manchurian Candidate fashion: "We have the best health-care system in the world." They never quite got around to asking why so many people were displeased with it.
The Democrats had what they believed was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to move bigly on health care, and they had enough votes that they did not require the support of a single Republican.
We have Professor Krugman writing in the New York Times every week that "Good people can't be good Republicans," that "It is now impossible to have intellectual integrity and a conscience while remaining a Republican in good standing." And if the Affordable Care Act fails, that must be because of Republican wreckers and saboteurs.
The project of learning to cooperate with citizens who have political inclinations and commitments that are at odds with your own has real value not because there is some metaphysical virtue in moderation but because there is a real, practical, here-and-now small-r republican virtue in stability.
Democrats in the majority act like they'll never lose again; Republicans in the minority act like they'll never win again.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/obamacare-program-paul-krugman-sabotage-claim/
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