OBAMACARE IS NOT LIKE RUBE GOLDBERG - BECAUSE THOUGH CONVOLUTED, THEY ACTUALLY WORKED!

FOSTER/NRO:

It has been clear for months that the only path to passage for Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine of special interest bribes, back-room deals, procedural opacity, presidential pep rallies and the like.

The problem with building a voting coalition that way is that it doesn't take much to break the circuit.

I AGREE THAT OBAMACARE IS FALLING APART BECAUSE THE CONVOLUTED AND CORRUPT DEALS NECESSARY TO BUY VOTES FALL APART UNDER MODESTLY MORAL SCRUTINY.

BUT I DISAGREE WITH THE ANALOGY.

OBAMACARE: IT'S NOT LIKE RUBE GOLDBERG; IT'S LIKE MC ESCHER.


WHY?

SIMPLE:

RUBE GOLDBERG CONTRAPTIONS ACTUALLY WORK.


MC ESCHER PICTURES APPEAR TO WORK, BUT DON'T, AT LEAST NOT IN THE REAL WORLD.

(WE POSTED ON THIS BEFORE - 12/26/09.)