"In many ways, the lily-livered method that Obama chose to push health care into being is a crystal-clear example of how the Democratic Party likes to act — showering a real problem with a blizzard of ineffectual decisions and verbose nonsense, then stepping aside at the last minute to reveal the true plan that all along was being forged off-camera in the furnace of moneyed interests and insider inertia."
— “Sick and Wrong: How Washington is Screwing up Health Care Reform - and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It,” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, September 3, 2009
