Bootleggers and Baptists

"Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess."

-- doubtful, otherwise such measures would rarely be passed in the first place.

That is the beauty of our political system (and really, all modern, bureaucratic systems): the role of accountability, and therefore incentives, is so distorted and defanged that any contextual use of the concept is a grotesque, albeit profoundly ironic, joke.

It really should not be necessary to broach such a subject at Cafe Hayek, where this is more or less an intellectual given.

"Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess"

Maybe in the same way the French aristocrats did.

George, Ben, Thomas, John, Patrick, Samuel, where are you guys now that we need you so badly.

The really bad news...

One of the largest health care reform bills in history was passed within the stimulus without a minutes discussion or debate.

Someday the lefties will have to answer for the mess.