They pursued an “all or nothing strategy and got nothing”? Frum proves himself an idot with that phrase alone. Sure the bill passed but it motivated a huge power shift from Republican to Democrat in 2010. Also conservative and GOP self id shot to the highest levels in recent history and polling shows the continued dominance. I don’t call that nothing.
Frum just doesn’t get it. We aren’t looking to make an ugly aweful bit of socialism more tolerable with a few conservative lite trimmings so that it will be even harder to ever get rid of. I don’t want our leaders hugging Democrats and smiling about how wonderful a piece of new wasteful govt is. David Frum and many others seem just happy to compromise themselves into political extinction or dilution is probably the better word.
David Frum worked for both George Bushes. Explains it all.