“It would amount to making a statement that the constitution was designed not to adapt but to preserve a vision of America rooted in the distant past, when the proverbial yeoman farmer could hardly imagine the existence of super-antibiotics or the MRI machine—to say nothing of the huge sums of money patients and insurers would pay for the use of them.”
— Jonathan Cohn on the Supreme Court striking down the healthcare act. Conservatives often act as though they understand history, but I don’t think they do. [TNR]
