The American Spectator : The Audacity of Refusing to Be Stampeded Into Obamacare

The American Spectator : The Audacity of Refusing to Be Stampeded Into Obamacare:

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:"