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Making It Explicit
Political Animal —
... . Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, who first found that wonderful Markowitz quote, puts it succinctly in a recent blog post: "Blocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival."" The Michael Cannon post quoted is on the Cato Institute's blog, here . Pethokoukis and Cannon claim that if Obama succeeds in passing health care, then people who might have been conservatives will like it, and will be more likely to vote for the people who passed it. This is unexceptional. An honest conservative might accept this claim and say: well, I guess our ideas are unpopular, so ...
Making It Explicit
Obsidian Wings —
... exactly the opposite function of turning people into investors. Whereas the Investor Class is more conservative than the rest of America, creating the Obamacare Class would pull America to the left. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, who first found that wonderful Markowitz quote, puts it succinctly in a recent blog post: "Blocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival.""
The Michael Cannon post quoted is on the Cato Institute's blog, here.
Pethokoukis and Cannon claim that if Obama succeeds in passing health care, then people ...
The Health of the Parties
The Corner on National Review Online —
Saturday, November 22, 2008 [image] The Health of the Parties [Ramesh Ponnuru] Michael Cannon and James Pethokoukis have each recently written that the enactment of "universal health care" could strengthen the Democrats for a very long time. I have made the same point in the past, and it seems to be a point that is easily misunderstood. I tried to clarify matters in a recent article for NR: As James Capretta has pointed out in these pages (September 1), Obama s health-care plan is designed to evolve into a national health-insurance program along the lines of ...
Cato: GOP Survival Depends On Blocking Health Care Reform
Daily Kos —
... Basically, the argument is that universal health care would be so popular that Republicans would lose their grip on social conservatives. Michael F. Cannon makes the case: ...
Cato Echoes Kristol's Point on Health Care
Open Left - Front Page —
... noted that in 1993 Republican strategist Bill Kristol predicted the permanent minority status of the GOP if it allowed universal health care to pass. Interestingly, the Cato Institute is now echoing Kristol's argument for 2008 (h/t ...
Reports: Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... comprehensive healthcare reform. Over at the think tank Cato, Michael Cannon warns that blocking any such legislation is vital for the GOP's survival (h/t ...
Reports: Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... comprehensive healthcare reform. Over at the think tank Cato, Michael Cannon warns that blocking any such legislation is vital for the GOP's survival (h/t ...
Jason Rosenbaum: Expose the Right and we win health care
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Amidst the usual scary phrases like "government takeover," "Marxist," and "Obamacare" (what does that even mean?), Pethokoukis comes clean about his real problem with health care reform - people will like it and they'll like Obama for making it happen. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute agrees. His message to Republican lawmakers: Blocking Obama's Health Plan Is Key to the GOP's Survival. ...
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Public Health Insurance Would Be Too Good and We'd Like It Too Much, Republicans Warn Healthcare NewsLadder
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Ezra links to a candid post from the blog of the right wing Cato Institute wherein Michael F. Cannon argues that blocking Obama's health plan is the key to GOP survival. Why? Because, history shows that once people start getting good healthcare from the government at a price they can afford, they want to keep reelecting the politicians who make that possible. Cannon calls the phenomenon where people reelect governments that give them good healthcare "becoming dependent on the government," we call it "voting our self-interest." ...
Bob Burnett: Obama's Defining Moment
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The second face of opposition is ideological. Most Republican members of congress are deeply conservative. They recognize that passage of the Obama plan would be more than a policy setback, it would deal a mortal wound to American conservatism. Shortly after Obama's election, a leading Cato Institute Conservative writer, Michael Cannon, wrote, Blocking Obama's healthcare plan is key to the GOP's survival. His point was that Democrats could win over Republican voters by improving the social safety net. "National health care... will bring reluctant voters into the Obama ...
