William Murchison on hubris.

It isn't so much that Americans bridle at the idea of health care reform. They bridle at the Democrats' mule-headed attempt to do "reform" the way they want to do it, no questions asked or answered. What happened to Obama's campaign promise to negotiate the final bill on C-SPAN? Well, um, circumstances changed; no point in it, and that's just the way of things, sorry. As Scott Brown said in his eloquent victory speech on Tuesday, "What I've heard again and again on the campaign trail is that our political leaders have grown aloof from the people, impatient with dissent, and comfortable in the back-room working deals."