Ex-Bush Aide David Frum: GOP Made Big Mistake on Health Care - AOL News
"...But in the hours after Democrats approved the sweeping legislation, a GOP counter-narrative emerged, fed by David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
It was the Republican Party that made the big mistake, Frum argued, by losing its grand bet that unified opposition to Obamacare could prevent the measure from becoming law. "Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It's hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster," Frum wrote on his Web site, FrumForum.com, in a column that Democrats quickly pounced on to highlight division in the Republican ranks. While Republicans may win a short-term benefit in the form of more seats in Congress after November, Frum argued, that will be little compensation for the enactment of a liberal policy objective that could last generations and will be difficult if not impossible to repeal..."
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