Letting Everyone Keep Their Plan: Terrible Idea

No, Not Everyone Can Keep Their Plan -- And That's A Good Thing!
US President Barack Obama speaks to encourage foreign investment and job-creation at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, DC, October 31, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama speaks to encourage foreign investment and job-creation at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, DC, October 31, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

The current furor over President Obama’s broken “keep your plan” promise confusingly melds together two very different claims. The first is a simple question of accuracy and honesty: Obama made a promise about his legislation, the promise has not come true, and a certain level of abuse is deserved. (Karl Rove huffs, “This is a serious breach of trust with the American people.” And you know that Karl Rove takes breaches of presidential trust with the utmost seriousness.)

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