A Further Perspective  The Audacity of Refusing to Be Stampeded
Into Obamacare  Barack Obama was not always so impatient  By
9.9.09  Send to Kindle  The poet Gerald Manley Hopkins disposed
of a rival by saying that he spoke with "the air and spirit of a
man bouncing up from a table with his mouth full of bread and
cheese" -- saying that he will stand no more "blasted nonsense."
In the same spirit, President Barack Obama bounced up from the
table where he supped with organized labor over Labor Day and
declared that he would stand no more blasted nonsense on the
issue of health care. In a dramatic display of presidential
impatience (deploying the rhetorical devise of anaphora, or
repetition of a phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences), he said:   One of the problems with health care in
America is the fact that millions of unionized workers have
gold-plated health insurance plans -- which encourage waste and
depend upon a tax system that unfairly imposes substantially
higher costs on other workers who,