Recommended: Politics in the Age of Distrust

As frequently happens, David Brooks in the New York Times has summed up the current health care situation wonderfully, in his piece today, Politics in the Age of Distrust. As he points out, this overweening hubris in Washington appears every four or eight years, with a new administration, and it always leads to an early disaster. This is Obama's version.

In fact, no major overhaul of a major part of American life should occur unless at least the moderates in both parties can come together in agreement (the political far left and far right will always be out of step).