Mark Steyn Channels Libertarian Leanings

Libertarian Leanings, August 5, 2009:

But let's be realistic.  The objective of Obama and the Democrats is not health care reform.  The objective is an enduring progressive congressional majority that they hope to achieve by forcing Americans into a dependence upon progressive government for life supporting medicines and medical care.

Libertarian Leanings, August 15, 2009:

Neither Clinton nor Obama care in the least what gets passed, as long as it gives progressive politicians control over special interests and their money.  Health care reform and climate change legislation are designed for maximum political control, which means there is one thing we can know with a certainty.  Whatever comes out of this health care reform exercise, the least likely is a better health care system.

Mark Steyn, March 6, 2010:

Yes. Because government health care is not about health care, it’s about government. Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.

But not for the rest of us.

Comments

[PJ Smith]

The worst part of it is that, once passed, there will never be enough will to repeal it on the part of the Republicans. Even though many will campaign and be elected specifically for that purpose, once in office enough Republicans will enjoy the pleasures of power too much to want to crusade for repeal. Conservative libertarianism isn't really a driving ideology among the political class in general.

That's why most of them don't really want to be in the majority. The majority never gets praised, they get blamed. It's safer to pose as the opposition.

Must. Fight. The. Cynicism. Need. More. Coffee.

[Tom Bowler]

Actually, PJ, I think they really do want to be in the majority, though at the moment Democrats are expecting to take an electoral hit over health care. They're gambling that its passage will guarantee them future majorities when the effects of expanded dependency on government take hold.