Great article from Ezra Klein in The Washington Post…
He points out that the positions President Obama and the Democrats are taking are the same positions the Republicans once had…
Shows how far to the Right everything in Washington has moved over the last couple of years…
If you put aside the emergency measures required by the financial crisis, three major policy ideas have dominated American politics in recent years: a health-care plan that uses an individual mandate and tax subsidies to achieve near-universal coverage; a cap-and-trade plan that attempts to raise the prices of environmental pollutants to better account for their costs; and bringing tax rates up from their Bush-era lows as part of a bid to reduce the deficit. In each case, the position that Obama and the Democrats have staked out is the very position that moderate Republicans staked out in the early ’90s — and often, well into the 2000s.
via The shocking truth about the birthplace of Obama’s policies – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post.
Lost in the 21st Century 