OBITUARIES HAVE BEGUN – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:21 A.M. ET:  Noemie Emery, at Weekly Standard, writes a kind of obituary for Obamacare and, in a way, for the Obama administration.  She defines it as an administration that believed itself somewhat better than the people it served.  She ends this way:

But that doesn’t mean that we cannot draw some conclusions about them and their class and their kind. One is that they were perhaps not as good as they thought they were, and perhaps deserved to be not that much listened to. Another is that the people who shine in the faculty lounge ought to stay in it, that novelists have not been good judges of political horseflesh, and that if you really believe you belong to an aristocracy of the intellect, you most likely do not. The intellectual salons include a whole lot of windbags, and would have excluded a number of very effective real-world practitioners, such as Truman and Reagan and Ike.

“It is actually harder to do some of these things in reality than we thought when we put it down on paper,” a book review in the Washington Post quoted a former Obama health care adviser as saying. This can stand as the last word for the great aspiration, and the people who held it. They wanted their chance, and they got it. They had it. They blew it. They’re done.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  More and more people are starting to talk about the Obama administration in the past tense.  That will accelerate if Republicans take the Senate this fall.  But, a caution:  This president will still have immense power to do damage through executive action and the conduct of his ludicrous and failing foreign policy.  He still has about him that self-righteous attitude of a self-declared saint. 

We can write the political obituary of an administration, but we should file it for later use.  Right now we have to fight for votes in November.

May 25,  2014