So much for claims that we’d entered “an era of post-economic voting” where “the culture war is all that mattered.” That may be a factor, but people still “care about whether they can put food on the table or afford a roof over their head.” Republicans learned “it’s still the economy, stupid.” The Arctic Frost team also got “ access to the telephone metadata of Republican lawmakers,” though “as a general rule, the feds are never supposed to surveil members of Congress.” Arctic Frost was a big step downward in the “vicious cycle” of eroding “the norms that protected our justice system from the vicissitudes of executive power.” The shutdown standoff over Obamacare subsidies points to a choice, argues Merrill Matthews at The Hill: “Keep pouring taxpayer dollars into a failing, unaffordable health care system, or take this opportunity to fix the structural flaws driving costs ever higher.” Obamacare costs will keep rising as its enhanced subsidies soon “require enhanced subsidies to the enhanced subsidies.” Organized fraud rings see Medicare and Medicaid “as a cash cow.” And stop paying extra for the same care when it’s in a hospital to help close the “legal loopholes fueling” some Medicaid ripoffs.
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2025-11-05 23:26:20
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