Ram it!

Great presidents lead. In a sense, Lincoln “rammed” through the Emancipation Proclamation just as FDR “rammed” through Lend-Lease, Truman “rammed” through desegregation of the military, and Lyndon Johnson “rammed” the Civil Rights Act down the throat of a gagging South. These might be considered more dramatic issues than mundane health care, I grant you — but grant me an exception for someone putting off doctor visits because he or she can’t afford to be sick. To that person, this bill is as dramatic as the difference between sickness and health — the great divide of mankind…

Google does not tell the whole story. It fails to answer what’s wrong with the old belief — a virtual childhood mantra — that “majority rules”? It was never “supermajority rules,” and the presidency was never intended as a weather vane, turning this way and that on the slight breeze of the latest poll. Lead and the people will — or will not — follow. Either way, ram the damn thing, Mr. President. Ram it!