In Writing Their Tax Bill, the Republicans Mimic Dems On ACA

Presidents really only get to do one big thing, or maybe two. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt got his New Deal and joined the war against Adolf Hitler. Lyndon Johnson expanded the welfare state and signed into law a landmark civil-rights bill. George W. Bush wanted to be a school-reformer and economy-modernizer, but instead he was obliged to spend his presidency playing Whac-a-Mole with al-Qaeda and its allies. Barack Obama's one big thing was moving the United States toward a more European model of health care, one in which the federal government would take a stronger and much more direct role ...