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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Why ObamaCare is sinking. It?s all about him. Health care is his signature ?

By Glenn Reynolds

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Why ObamaCare is sinking.

It’s all about him. Health care is his signature reform. And he knows that if he produces nothing, he forfeits the mystique that both propelled him to the presidency and has sustained him through a difficult first six months. Which is why Obama’s red lines are constantly shifting. Universal coverage? Maybe not. No middle-class tax hit? Well, perhaps, but only if they don’t “primarily” bear the burden. Because it’s about him, Obama is quite prepared to sign anything as long as it is titled “health-care reform.”

I think he’ll declare victory and get out.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).