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JAY COST: The Bully?s Pulpit. ?For somebody who seems detached from the details of policy and larg?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAY COST: The Bully’s Pulpit. “For somebody who seems detached from the details of policy and largely uninterested in legislative wrangling, Barack Obama sure does come across sometimes like a political bully. But this is not bullying some obstinate backbench legislator. Instead, this is bullying the American people. With health care reform, he basically told the country that he didn’t care what it thought. The fact that people opposed the bill was proof they didn’t know what they were talking about. Now, apparently, the evolving strategy on energy is the same. Don’t like cap-and-trade? That’s your problem, not his. Plan to vote out Democrats in favor of the idea? Like he cares. He’ll pass it anyway.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).