RealClearPolitics - Democrats May Regret 'Pass Anything' Strategy

RealClearPolitics - Democrats May Regret 'Pass Anything' Strategy: "Former President Bill Clinton visited Capitol Hill recently to deliver a pep talk to Senate Democrats. 'It's not important to be perfect here. It's important to act, to move, to start the ball rolling,' he reportedly told senators. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel sounded a similar theme in an interview with the New York Times. 'I'm sure there are a lot of people sitting in the shade at the Aspen Institute ... who will tell you what the ideal plan is. Great, fascinating. You have the art of the possible measured against the ideal.'

So the strategy on crafting sweeping legislation that will profoundly alter one-sixth of the U.S. economy in the midst of the worst recession in 20 years is: Don't stress about the fine print. Just pass something!

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Mona Charen RealClearPolitics
Health care Democratic Party

This is the momentum theory of government. Governing is like campaigning: Keep the bandwagon rolling along and the voters will follow in the slipstream. Fail to do this, Bill Clinton warned, and Democrats may suffer the same fate in the 2010 elections that they did in 1994, after HillaryCare went down to defeat."