For most of the previous presidency, the Left accused George W. Bush of using 9/11 as a pretext to attack Iraq. Since January, his successor has used the economic slump as a pretext to “reform” health care. Most voters don’t buy it: They see it as Obama’s “war of choice,” and the more frantically he talks about it as a matter of urgency the weirder it seems.
The Obama administration chortles that you should “never let a crisis go to waste.”
In other words, they say, you should use a crisis to further your own agenda. But as Steyn notes, that’s exactly what the Left accuced Bush of when he went into Iraq.