That even if Democrats manage to set up a solid health-care program, conservatives will do their best, once they have regained power, to drop it down the same chute they did the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

That is exaclty what Dumbya did when he signed the Medicare drug benefit law.

This is a recurring theme, once in power they will mismange government programs to the point of dysfunction (see the VA) and then point to the program as an example of why government is bad.

They will take a perfectly sound engine, fail to do preventative maintenance to it and put crappy gasonline into power it and then when it fails, blame it.

You think the war in Iraq was about oil? Hell no, it was about shifting tax dollars to private companies billions at a time, bleed the federal budget to the point where social programs would be underfunded and ineffective then scream about how bad they are.

Running up the debt to $10 trillion was a negligent attempt to kill government.

This article makes a good point. The alleged conservatives spend as much as alleged liberal when in power. They also screw up the economy for all of us only to help a few of their backers.
Bush did it with Medicare and the Middle East War. Obama is doing it with healthcare "insurance," which sounds to me like another corporate welfare scheme rather than setting up treatment facilities etc.
We just have to start axing the power of the federal government to spend. It's as if both parties are drunks who just can't put the bottle down.

I agree with the premise of the article in that the GOP is very hypocritical regarding fiscal responsibility.