Read the whole article. It`s about health care, but it has much broader implications. It speaks to Santorum`s view of the role of government. When I hear politicians talk about using the government to shape the marketplace it makes me cringe. (and there`s many more quotes that provide insight regarding his thinking)
Oh I know, but his going on and on and on and on and on about the mandate has been screwing us all into a hole. And he did it just for his own chance to gain against Newt. And it turns out, he was for it too.
I agree with your point, but the mandate stuff is particularly irritating to me. I started a piece for American Thinker called “Mandate Madness” just today on this very subject - so perhaps it’s a raw nerve for me.
Shouldn’t be a shock. His plan to exempt manufacturers from paying the same taxes every other company does is an even more gross abuse of the role of government in the economy than what he discusses in this article (which doesn’t discuss the mandate). We have to give Republicans some slack though, because Hillarycare was such a threat that it probably wasn’t a viable political position to stop it to just come out and argue for the status quo. So you can’t blame them for taking some time to figure out the right policy.