Henninger: OCare and the Liberal Brand

"As American voters watch ObamaCare continue its Godzilla-like rampage across the national health-care landscape," writes Daniel Henninger @ WSJ, "it's worth considering the collateral damage this political monster may be doing to the Democratic brand itself."

Not everyone deserves a gold badge from J.D. Power, but by and large it has become very difficult to sustain a shoddy product in the marketplace anymore.

Except the government. And the Democratic Party is nothing if not the party whose identity is bound up with government services and the public unions that deliver those services.

Good enough for government work was once just a joke. ...For decades, voters have passed off this mediocrity as the sometimes maddening bureaucratic price for living in a large, complex country. No longer.