By Rich Lowry"In keeping with his new spirit of compromise, President Barack Obama has offered a health-care bill staking out middle ground between House and Senate Democrats.
At $950 billion, it's more expensive than the Senate bill, but cheaper than the House bill, and mixes and matches sundry tax proposals. Obama has again proved himself a committed bipartisan leader — if liberals from the House and liberals from the Senate are considered political parties.
Obama's true post-Massachusetts strategy now comes into focus. It wasn't to engage in good faith with Republicans, who will be handy props at the upcoming health-care "summit." It wasn't to "pivot to jobs." It was to wait until the shock of losing Ted Kennedy's Senate seat faded enough that he could keep doing what he'd done previously."
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