Stay Out of It, Mr. President

摘要

The Spin On Thurs-day's White House health-care summit is that it marks a return to politics as it should be practiced: the president leading the legislative process, the twoparties talking things out, bipartisanship flowering, order restored.The reality is rather different. The summit is the product of, not the solution to, the problems afflicting our political process. And for all the bipartisan rhetoric, it's probably going to make the partisanship worse.For months, members of Congress and the punditocracy have complained that the president needs to step up and take a more active role in the health-care-reform process.