It's a Noonan Day in America!, Part III

This time the Pegster addresses time and space from a highly scientific vantage point:

"Years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called 'A Sense of Where You Are.' I keep thinking about that title." Then some stuff about time and space, finding yourself so you can locate (italics in original) yourself, &c. Occasional jump shot, maybe?

"Politically where are we right now, at this moment?" As opposed to right now, at another moment.

Apparently Obamacare "dealt with something personal, even intimate: your health, the care of your body, the medicines you choose to take or procedures you get." But mostly your health insurance, which takes the form of paperwork, and also a lot of Hispanics taking up spots at the doctor's office, which is an invasive procedure, probably, as well as icky, I guess.

"The problem now is not the delivery system of the program, it’s the program itself. Not the computer screen but what’s inside the program. This is something you can’t get the IT guy in to fix." But maybe the Geek Squad guy from Best Buy can figure it out?

"Back to a sense of where we are. You know where we are? It’s as if it’s 1964 and the administration has just passed landmark civil rights legislation and the bill goes into effect, and everyone looks—only immediately it is apparent that it makes everyone’s life worse!"

George Wallace and Strom Thurmond are scratching their heads, Peg.

"It’s the biggest governmental enterprise that hasn't worked since the earliest beginnings of the U.S. rocket program, when they kept trying to send rockets into space and they kept falling, defeated and groaning, into the ground."

OK, the rockets were groaning? Anthropomorphize much? Also, I thought the biggest U.S. government failures were the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War...

"ObamaCare is a practical, policy and political disaster, a parlay of poisonous P’s." It's also a panoply of pernicious P's: A pugnacious, punctilious, and prudential disaster.

"Second point: I don’t know, maybe the Republican Party could focus on where we are and help those Americans who are beside themselves with anxiety?" Location, location, location, just like Bill Bradley knew when he won his political victories and what-not.