Shoveling piles of cash accumulated by someone else into the greedy hands of a shadowy few is easy. Fundamentally restructuring society for the betterment of the many is hard. To those who criticize Obama for not being as effective for the Left as Bush was for the Right it's time to recognize how the differences in agenda relate to the effort and strategies involved.
Destruction is both easy and highly visible. It is easy because it is aligned with the 2nd law of thermodynamics which states that every system in the Universe is tending towards chaos. It's easy to knock a cup off the table and have it shatter. Do to the 2nd law, you will never witness this occurring in reverse unaided by a lot of effort. The only thing that reverses entropy is life. And then only in local systems where massive amounts of external energy are available from, for example, the Sun or a previous administration controlled by Democrats.
Creation, on the other hand, is both hard and often invisible. This is especially true in the early stages where the germ and its DNA are first activated. Getting the DNA right so that the seed grows into a viable system is the key. This can lead to all kinds of tension between zoologists who want to see a specific animal, and geneticists who insist on stringing together proteins.
Political zoologists have a vision, political geneticists have a plan. Obama is a political geneticist.
The recent move to advance the date in which States can locally restructure HCR is nothing less than the rescheduling of the death blow to the vocal opponents of HCR. This death blow was built into HCR from the beginning with a date of 2017. The date in which all of the opposition would have to put up or shut up. Do to circumstances, we can now revel in a swifter end to the nonsense.
In addition to delivering the knock out punch to all those who make a living by posturing, the new date opens the door for real progressive reform. We will get to see, in a market place of ideas all across the nation, who really knows how to govern. States that opt out of HCR without tackling the fundamental issues will suffer in the future. Those that take HCR as an invitation to improve further will prosper. As Health Care is one of the leading fiscal risks for the future, States that saddle themselves with idiotic legislation now will loose the resources to compete nationally, and globally. Their influence will wain and a new age of reason will dawn.
Well, I can dream a little, can't I?