If He's For It, I'm Against It  Over the past few years, folks
like me have pointed out many times that Republicans have,
almost as one, changed their minds on the wisdom of a number of
important policies, for no apparent reason other than the fact
that Barack Obama embraced them. The most notable ones are "cap
and trade," which used to be a conservative way to harness the
power of markets to address climate change, but then became a
sinister government power grab to force everyone to huddle in
the cold as the useless solar panels on their roofs provided
only enough power to run a tiny hotplate; and the individual
health insurance mandate, which used to be a Heritage
Foundation-crafted idea to use the power of markets to achieve
universal private insurance coverage and avoid single-payer
health care, then became the greatest threat to freedom the
world has seen since Joseph Stalin was laid to rest.  Yet for
all the (deserved) ridicule, there's something almost rational
lying underneath these changes in positi