Quote of the week
One last thing: Ignoring, for now, the fact that the Affordable Care Act provides benefits for all Americans - and not just African Americans and Latinos - there’s something odd about this line of criticism. Voters elect and support politicians to do things for them. There’s nothing illegitimate about the fact that Obama won by providing tangible benefits to people who needed them. And in fact, if elected president, this was Romney’s plan as well - large tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, who don’t need them but would like them all the same. That Romney doesn’t see those measures as “gifts” is a sign of how blinded he is by his class.
Jamelle Bouie, at the Washington Post.