I looked up "revolution" in my Hannah Arendt dictionary, and apparently it means something like "revolving back to a set of formerly established principles" (paraphrase). Well, I knew that... and so did James Buchanan, when he wrote Politics by Principle, Not Interest. But now it's time to turn it into an actual political program that resets the course of a nation and a world. The Democrat Party has just handed us both the strategy and the tactics. All its plan lacked, was principle itself. Megan McCardle, in a moment of blinding clarity, says:

Republicans and other opponents of the bill did their job on this; they persuaded the country that they didn't want this bill. And that mattered basically not at all. If you don't find that terrifying, let me suggest that you are a Democrat who has not yet contemplated what Republicans might do under similar circumstances. Farewell, social security! Au revoir, Medicare! The reason entitlements are hard to repeal is that the Republicans care about getting re-elected. If they didn't-if they were willing to undertake this sort of suicide mission-then the legislative lock-in you're counting on wouldn't exist. . . . If the GOP takes the legislative innovations of the Democrats and decides to use them, please don't complain that it's not fair. Someone could get seriously hurt, laughing that hard.

Democrats murdered the tooth fairy, with hammers. John Taylor, President of the Virginia Institute of Public Policy, is even more effusive:

Kudos to President Obama for creating the modern Tea Party movement; for planting the seed in the minds of the American people that we need to completely reconsider the morality of entitlements; and for shining the light of day on how authoritarian the Progressive movement's agenda actually is. In November, we'll all be saying, "Couldn't have done it without you..."

We should also thank nearly 50% of the citizens of Minnesota, without whom none of this would be possible, as well as countless others who, in a moment of sophomoric idealism, voted to elect the current government of unprincipled influence peddlers touting a molecule-thin veneer of "hope and change." Thankyou! Like the Democrats, we too "have a dream." It is to re-establish a country based on the generality principle of non-discrimination; a country that needs no entitlement bureaucracy awarding the spoils of political interest. We considered the dream unreachable, until now...