Subject: Share the View -- on Obamacare Repeal and Israeli Overconfidence
From: "Bloomberg View -- Tobin Harshaw" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:01:48 -0400

_Share the View_ -- _Bloomberg View _
     A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for March 27,  2012

   The Supreme Court has only one day of health-care argument under its belt,
   but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is already planning the next
   step. Lucky for us, he's sharing his thoughts with View columnist Ramesh
   Ponnuru. "McConnell doesn’t worry that a court decision to uphold the
   mandate will make the law more popular or help the Democrats," writes
   Ponnuru. "Most of the arguments Republicans made before the vote on the law
   concerned its unwisdom rather than its unconstitutionality, and no court
   decision can undermine those arguments, he says. If the court keeps the law
   and McConnell becomes Senate majority leader, he vows that 'the first item
   up would be to try to repeal Obamacare.' ”  Why does he think that effort
   will succeed? " Supporters of the law have repeatedly predicted that
   Americans would soon come to like it," notes Ponnuru. " 'They are
   genuinely perplexed at how unpopular it is,' McConnell says. They believed,
   he adds, that it would become as sacrosanct as Social Security and Medicare,
   not realizing that it would come to be seen, unlike those programs, as
   intrusive and bossy." (Link.)

   Meanwhile, the View editors have their own thoughts on Obamacare's day in
   court (link); and on Russia's objections to European missile defense.
   (Link.)

   Jeffrey Goldberg,  fresh back from the Holy Land, says he found Israel's
   leaders distressingly overconfident. (Link.)

   Edward Glaeser has suggestions on encouraging American entrepreneurship.
   (Link.)

   And, in an excerpt from their forthcoming book "White House Burning," View
   columnist Simon Johnson and James Kwak explain why  gold standard is no
   longer, well, a golden standard. (Link.)

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