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Jewish World Review Jan. 28, 2014 / 27 Shevat, 5774 Obama breeding distrust of liberalism By Michael Gerson http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | For President Obama, the state of the political union . . . could be better. It is not only that the president’s political support is diminished; it is diminished, in large part, because of his main political achievement, the Affordable Care Act. Because of the way the law was sold — “you can keep your plan” — Americans have questions about Obama’s credibility. Because of the way it has been implemented — “the system is down at the moment” — they have questions about his competence. In a recent Quinnipiac University poll, a plurality of American voters doubts that Obama is “honest and trustworthy,” and a majority believes the Obama administration is not competent at running the government. Add to this an economy recovering so weakly and inequitably that 77 percent of voters call it “not so good” or “poor,” and you have a serious possibility that the president’s party will lose control of the Senate in November — leaving Obama isolated and legislatively irrelevant. The great rhetorical problem for Obama is that these are not primarily rhetorical problems. It is neither fair nor realistic to ask speechwriters to succeed where legislators, bureaucrats and health economists have made a botch of it. This political situation would be interesting if it were not so boring. A second-term president faces declining public standing and a tough midterm election. Not much news there. It is the ideological state of the union that is less typical and more alarming. The unraveling of Obamacare is also an unfolding crisis for liberalism. It was the universal liberal assumption that offering fairly generous health benefits to the uninsured — funded in a transfer program — would result in many more of them actually becoming insured, thus creating a social expectation that Republicans could never repeal. (This was also the expectation and fear of tea party conservatives, who described such benefits as crack-like in their addictive power.) But the early returns are in. A large majority of the 2.2 million people who had purchased insurance on the exchanges by year-end — 65 percent to 90 percent, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal — already had insurance. Economic writer Megan McArdle did the math, estimating that just 15 percent (750,000) of the 5 million uninsured that the Congressional Budget Office expected to sign up in the first year have actually done so. Meanwhile, administration claims about increases in coverage for the uninsured under Medicaid are badly, even deceptively, inflated, as Sean Trende has documented. Economists debate the reasons for this failure of uptake. But, as it stands, Obamacare is largely a health insurance replacement system rather than an expansion. And the replacement is often less generous, more expensive and more restricted in options than promised. Yet, as McArdle pointed out, “the worst is yet to come”: small-business policy cancellations, expensive government subsidies to insurance companies for excess losses, higher premiums in the exchanges, the IRS collection of individual mandate penalties, cuts in Medicare Advantage, the “Cadillac tax” on expensive policies, the possibility that some insurers will exit the public market entirely. As the defining legislative promise of modern liberalism is implemented, trust in government is near record lows — a correlation that is not purely a coincidence. And this complicates every other element of the progressive agenda. Meanwhile, Republicans argue among themselves — not only about what policy alternatives they might offer but about whether federal policy on most issues is legitimate. And the ideological position generally taken to be more authentically conservative is also unresponsive to public needs and alienating to public opinion. The tea party argument in favor of narrowly interpreted, specifically enumerated constitutional powers is not only a criticism of Obamacare but calls into question the legitimacy of the Great Society and New Deal as well. (It is also a criticism of anyone, including Republicans, who offers an alternative to Obamacare.) This is not, in fact, the more “authentic” conservative tradition, which has stronger ties to the Federalists and Lincoln than to the anti-Federalists. But this view has come to characterize a significant portion of conservative activists. And given the choice between incompetent liberalism and tea party populism, Americans are, well, in deep trouble. The alternative is a reform-oriented conservatism that makes peace with the safety net while empowering individuals and rejecting bureaucratic centralization — the spirit, for example, of the Patient CARE Act, an alternative to Obamacare recently introduced by Republican Sens. Tom Coburn, Richard Burr and Orrin Hatch. It represents what the union needs most right now: another ideological option. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment on Michael Gerson's column by clicking here. Previously: 01/24/14 Our complex president: Is his intellectual style actually good leadership? 01/21/14 The power to intimidate . . . on the Left 01/17/14 Gates hits his target 12/31/13 A dismal year in politics, for Republicans and Democrats alike 12/24/13 The war on Christians 12/17/13 The exhausted parties: What have politicians accomplished? 12/06/13 My numbered days: My cancer diagnosis gave me the clarity of mortality 11/22/13 C.S. Lewis: Rescuing desire 11/19/13 Former bridge burner starting to build them to save GOP 11/15/13 Entrepreneurs of outrage: Fear and anger sweep up policy issues 11/01/13 What Obamacare has cost Dems 10/29/13 In 6 months will this column prove prophetic? 10/22/13 Obamacare repair: It could become a crisis for modern liberalism 10/04/13 The GOP should speed Obamacare's demise. Right now, it's not 10/03/13 The tea party's revolt 09/30/13 The end of compromise? 09/17/13 A state of paralysis: Congress, Obama need to act 09/12/13 In full retreat on Syria 09/10/13 Obama misunderstands wartime leadership 09/09/13 Rallying around a gesture 08/30/13 The preacher and the politician 08/27/13 Is Obama's oft-cited best-case scenario in Syria still even possible? 08/23/13 Jordan's wary welcome 08/20/13 The hardest goodbye: A parent letting go 08/16/13 For GOP, opposition shouldn't only mean obstruction 08/13/13 Crazy, humane determination creates breakthrough for millions 08/09/13 America's bubble of complacency 07/01/11 The GOP's ideal America 03/04/11 The last doughboy and the emergence of a great nation 03/01/11 Conservatives shouldn't be so surprised by freedom 02/22/11 The progression of pain 02/18/11 The seriousness primary 02/11/11 Do Egypt's protests mean American decline? 01/27/11 No-bend Obama 01/21/11 Two good arguments for civility -- and passion -- in politics 01/11/11 Obama's staff changes give him a second chance 01/11/11 Is Arizona shooting an empty search for meaning? 01/07/11 WikiLeaks gives dangerous ammunition to a tyrant 01/04/11 Michael Vick: Symbol of the second chance 12/28/10 Social Security reform is the answer to Obama's problems --- and the nation's 12/21/10 When foreign policy realism isn't realistic 12/17/10 When it comes to politics, Obama's ego keeps getting in the way 11/26/10 Libs resort to conspiracy theories to explain Obama's problems 11/19/10 With Holder at the helm, detainee policy is a disaster 11/12/10 Blue-state budget crises spell even more trouble for Dems 10/19/10 Obama the snob 10/12/10 Seeds of victory in Afghanistan 10/05/10 Believers' remorse 10/04/10 Pound-foolish on national security 09/28/10 Babylon on the Potomac 09/27/10 Our reluctant commander in chief 09/21/10 Blue strongholds are becoming Democratic graveyards 09/17/10 For the GOP, a bittersweet brew from the Tea Party 09/15/10: Insanity's great enablers 09/13/10: The lost communicator 09/08/10: Will 2010 midterms be 1994 all over again? 09/01/10: Obama's economic wandering 08/27/10: Miracles from abroad 08/25/10: Address these issues in order to strengthen the Tea Party 08/20/10: The lost promise of Barack Obama 07/23/10: Obama's greatest nightmare 02/04/09: The Reality of Innocence 01/07/09: The Risks in Obama's Ambitions 12/31/08: Support Obama Will Need 06/13/08: Prince Charles, Organic Conservatism Icon 06/11/08: No longer a bankrupt political joke but still overshadowed 04/23/08: McCain's anger management 04/10/08: A Country for Old Men 03/06/08: Does the America Need a Hug? 03/06/08: Obama's First 100 Days 02/29/08: Words Aren't Cheap 02/22/08: He Said, They Said 02/20/08: Dying silently in Zimbabwe 02/15/08: Hillary's Unappealing Path 02/13/08: NATO's Afghan Stumbles 02/08/08: Why McCain Endures 02/06/08: One surge that led to another 02/01/08: In North Korea, Process Over Progress 01/30/08: Compassionate to the end © 2008, WPWG

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