'Tis a pity she's a commissar - Hillary Clinton's political drive

National Review, Sept 2, 1996 by Kate O'Beirne

At first she resisted this truth and tried to push through a total restructuring of health care by the sheer power of presidential authority and her own self-confidence. But she was defeated. And just as after the 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, she learned from her defeat. Her prudent silence in the face of welfare reform is one evidence of a lesson learned.

Another, as Ramesh Ponnuru (p. 28) points out, is her return to reforming health care by a Fabian policy of gradualism. If Hillary has her way, health care will be socialized little by little, and we won't notice until the trap is sprung.