My favorite moment in barackrnObama's recent health care summit came when Senate majority leader Harry Reid surgically exposed the emptiness of a key Republican debating point, using the classic political tactic of jujitsu: he allowed the force of the opposition's argument to carry it into the abyss. Senator Tom Co-burn of Oklahoma, an obstetrician, had delivered a passionate-and seemingly well-informed-statement about the need for medical-malpractice reform.
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