January 8, 2014 - 6:00pm
WASHINGTON -- The era of Gesture Liberalism is at hand. It may be more amusing than consequential.
Americans who exercise consumer sovereignty wherever Barack Obama still tolerates it are constantly disappointing him. For generations they persisted in buying what he calls "substandard" policies from what he calls "bad apple" health insurers. They stopped only when he forced them to stop -- when he rescued them from their ignorance by banning their benighted preferences.
Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson launching the federal "War on Poverty." U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., offered the following address to mark the occasion: