The White House’s current ad hoc policy is unreliable and defaulting to handling organized enemies of the United States as though they were just like gangsters running booze or drugs across the border is reckless.

For all of the fussmaking over whether the President should credit for being bipartisan because he attended the House Republican’s Baltimore Retreat over the past weekend, his candor about the current health care bills and where they stand on forcing Americans into government-planned care may be the most reasonable offering President Obama has made to the debate in the past year.

Last week’s State of the Union was one to remember, although surely not for the reasons that its drafters intended.
It began as an inspiring little story about The Little Country That Could. In its …