Charles Lane Is Badly Confused About Obamacare

Washington Post columnist Charles Lane must have been off the planet or at least out of the country in 2009. In a column on the recent appellate court ruling banning subsidies in the federal exchanges, he tells readers that the Republican obstruction was to be expected given the extreme Democratic positions on the stimulus, cap and trade legislation and the Affordable Care Act:

"Everything might have been different if Democrats and Republicans had operated in a spirit of compromise, the Frame...