What in the Benjamin C. Bradlee is going on with The Washington Post editorial board? After shocking the internet by conceding that Obamacare was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again.
The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal lawmakers for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: “The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.” But the newspaper even took it a step further: “If the last week has shown anything, it’s that the federal bureaucracy performs too many ‘nonessential’ tasks that do not have a direct bearing on the lives of most citizens.”
Can pigs fly? Are we living in a parallel universe? Are chimpanzees dropping in from the cosmos? The Left will cry "state-run media." Finding this kind of hot take within the pages of one of the most anti-Trump newspapers in circulation is like finding a real conservative on the Nicolle Wallace show.
Of course, The Post played both sides by caveating its nod to libertarian economics: “At the same time, the government also performs many critical functions.” However, the newspaper’s open rebuke of the Democrats’ incorrigible grandstanding over Obamacare subsidies is a sight worthy of beholding:
Democratic leaders need to understand they’re playing a dangerous game. They want to show their restive base that they’re willing to fight Trump, and this is one of the few leverage points they have in the House and Senate minorities. Republicans have offered to reopen the government at Biden-era spending levels, but Democrats keep voting no, holding out for concessions on the Affordable Care Act.
“There is a clean funding bill on the table,” the editorial board continued. “Only a handful of Senate Democrats need to vote for it. Then they can get all the lights back on and fight over Obamacare subsidies.”
This comes just after The Post editorial board admitted on the Obamacare issue that “the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable” in a stunning reversal of years worth of propaganda in favor of former President Barack Obama’s “signature achievement.” The architects of the law, wrote the editorial board, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.”
It appears that Post owner Jeff Bezos’s free market reforms to his newspaper seem to be taking hold. Mazel tov.