Frank Rich asks, “Is Obama Punking Us?,” with regard to health care.
What he is really asking is whether Obama is more concerned with having something that he can claim as an an accomplishment to sign than he is with actually fixing things.
You see the same thing with Geithner/Summers and the financial crisis.
There is a real and deep aversion to meaningful change here.
This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.