How very apropos

The Final Exam of Voxiversity III: Liberal Fascism was posted today, and the timing could not be more perfect:

“At the moment, except for the people without insurance, we’re not in a health-care crisis,” said Stephen Wayne, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington. “You do need a crisis to generate movement in Congress and to help build a consensus.”

I am sure that Rahm and the Council of Doom are arranging something to bolster the flagging support for ever-increasing Federal control of the economy in the face of a manifesting depression that ought to offer up something truly worthy of the title "crisis".

Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said the administration made unprecedented health-care progress in eight months.

“We gave Congress a charge, we gave them broad outlines, which is the reason we are farther along than any of the five presidents that have tried,” Emanuel said in an interview yesterday. “We’re not there yet, and this speech is intended to finish the job.”

Stay the course, Rahm. I'm sure the marginal increases in speeches, outlines and hope-change will sufficiently stimulate the Congress into recovery...