MICKEY KAUS: Letting Obama Off The Hook: Megan McArdle Is Way Too Understanding. “The dude just sold us an expensive universal health care program on the grounds that it was really a program of deficit-cutting entitlement reform (because it would ‘bend’ the health care cost curve)! Now that it’s time for real deficit-cutting entitlement reform instead of fake reform, he throws up his hands and says ‘Sorry, can’t be done. I’ll just tread water for a while.'”