How to Kill the GOP: Give people what they want.

Those who read my blogs know that I like to deconstruct things to their most basic terms. HuffPost, via The Kos, is reporting that the passage of universal health care would destroy the long-term political prospects of the GOP, just as it killed conservative parties in England. James Pethokoukis, at U.S. News and World Report, writes: "After the [British] Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when health care, social welfare, education and pro-working class policies were enacted by labor-supported governments."

In essence, the GOP would be ruined if people got what they wanted, or more simply, if they failed at preventing people from getting what they want. And once they had it, they'd never again be fooled by the erroneous rhetoric about how big government's manifestly bad and how taking charge of your own life (or not) is always better than getting help [from uncle Sam].