Fareed Zakaria writes:

Rahm Emanuel quipped that the task was not to get health-care legislation through “the executive committee of the Brookings Institution, but the U.S. Congress.” In fact, proposals that would impress experts would also impress tens of millions of independents, the vast middle ground where elections are won and lost in America. That is how Bill Clinton outmaneuvered Newt Gingrich, and how Tony Blair outfoxed the Tory party for 10 years.

This is not at all how I remember the ’90s. I don’t recall “experts” being impressed by the V Chip, or school uniforms. They were less supportive of welfare reform than the public at large. There may have been no Clinton administration initiative formulated with more expert input than its health-care reform plan. That didn’t work out too well, did it?