Sorry, K-Lo, can’t go with you on this one. First, this bill is entirely worth it to the Obama Left. It is the social revolution they’ve always dreamed of, they get it without firing a shot, and it never gets rolled back without very drastic countermeasures — meaning the likelihood is that it doesn’t get rolled back (and since we live in a dynamic world, what doesn’t get rolled back, rolls on, and rolls over us).

Second, when some of us argued in 2008 that Obama is not a conventional politician, that enacting his radical, transformative agenda remains more important to him than winning elections, and that he would lead us straight to Demon Pass, Peggy Noonan scoffed — when she wasn’t swooning over our vibrant, promising, intellectual giant of a new president. And she still doesn’t get it: Obama hasn’t changed a whit; she was just wrong.