Obama's End Game

Mark Steyn discusses the Big O's end game after all the calculated confusion is stripped away from his legislative proposals:

"The end-game is very obvious. If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. By “dependent”, I don’t mean merely welfare, although that’s a good illustration of the general principle. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you’re assuring the votes both of the welfare recipient and of the vast bureaucracy required to process his welfare. But extend that principle further, to the point where government intrudes into everything: a vast population is receiving more from government (in the form of health care or education subventions) than it thinks it contributes, while another vast population is managing the ever expanding regulatory regime (a federal energy-efficiency code, a government health bureaucracy) and another vast population remains, nominally, in the private sector but, de facto, dependent on government patronage of one form or another – say, the privately owned franchisee of a government automobile company, or the designated “community assistance” organization for helping poor families understand what programs they’re eligible for. Either way, what you get from government – whether in the form of a government paycheck, a government benefit or a government contract – is a central fact of your life."
www.steynonline.com/content/view/2341/26/

It's worth reading the whole article, but the bolded sentence sums it up in one nice memory nugget. This is why the details are not important to him or Pelosi or Reid - it's the expansion of government that assures a perpetual Democratic majority from captive voters, not the merits of any particular program. Thus, the faster, the better - and screw the details.