William F. Buckley was a prolific writer right to the end. His last column appeared in NRO on February 2, and it contained some useful thoughts concerning Hillary and health care:
The matter of health care that has been primary in Mrs. Clinton’s public career lends itself to special attention. She put forth an ambitious program when her husband was in his first term as president. But there were serious defects in that program …
Her political opponents, whom she arrogantly dismissed, put a lot of money and energy into shining a spotlight on those defects. And everyone knows the result:
[They] were able to derail the program the Clinton administration had billed as its most important domestic initiative. And yet in Thursday night’s debate Mrs. Clinton cited that plan — which she implied she would revive unchanged — as one of her principal claims to the presidency.
In other words, Buckley recognized Hillary’s oft-repeated claim to have learned valuable lessons from that humiliating debacle as just another of her trademark whoppers.
I have been reading Buckley since I joined the VRWC, and will miss his unique clarity.
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