Balance of Opinion: Health care’s political price
“Sooner or later the backlash against [the law] would morph into a movement to repeal it,” Barnes writes in The Wall Street Journal . “Republicans would likely make repeal a top issue in congressional elections this November. The GOP is expected to win a substantial number of seats in Congress this fall. If Republicans take control of the House or Senate or both, clashes over health care would be unavoidable.
“Assuming it passes, ObamaCare wouldn’t go into effect fully until 2013. This fact alone would make the health care plan a paramount issue in the 2012 presidential race, regardless of whether Obama is on the ballot. As long as he’s president, Obama would surely veto legislation to repeal or gut ObamaCare. With a Republican in the White House, things would be different. Republicans might be successful in dismantling the program.”
2009 Los Angeles Auto Show
If the North American auto show season has an official kickoff party, the Los Angeles Auto Show is it. In addition to world debuts of the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, 2011 Toyota Sienna and VW Up! Lite Concept, the 2009 LA Auto Show again played host to the Green Car of the Year announcement, which went to a diesel car for the second year in a row. The LA Auto Show is also a first chance to see and touch the cars unveiled around the world in the eight months since the New York Auto Show, which this year included jaw-droppers like the 2011 Lexus LFA and 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
