This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition:

Here we go again.

Fifteen years after Bill Clinton’s health care reforms sank in a sea of bickering Democratic lawmakers, President Barack Obama is making another run at the monumental problems of the American health care system.

Obama has some advantages. Unlike Clinton, he was elected by a majority vote, and he’s got lots of political capital to spend. Also, conditions are riper.

Last time around, the wind in the sails of health care reform came from a recession that had millions of Americans fearful of losing their jobs – and their insurance. Public interest dropped once the economy revived.

This time around, the job losses are worse, public anxiety is higher and the country seems to have reached broad agreement that all Americans ought to have health coverage.

Now as then, though, the devil’s in the details. Clinton dumped more than 1,000 pages worth of details on Congress in a massive reform bill; critics were already picking it apart before it saw the light of day.

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The upper fold of the newspapers yesterday boomed "Iraq Troop Withdrawal," or more evocatively, "Pullout From Iraq." But I suspect some (not all) in the press corps were less than ebullient about President Obama's speech to the Camp Lejeune Marines.

A few sentences beyond the headlines we learned this was to be an 18-month scaled withdrawal – not the "immediate withdrawal" promised in Campaign '08. Moreover, we learned that while combat troops will leave, 35,000-50,000 support troops (approximately the same number now stationed in Korea and West Germany) will remain in Iraq until at least 2011. And we learned that while studying this question Obama had consulted, and earned the support of, Republican Senator John McCain.

Strikingly, there are expressions of President Obama's pride that our troops "have succeeded beyond any expectations," led by "two of our finest generals." "You got the job done," he told the Marines. Put another way: "Mission Accomplished."

The Marines roared their approval of their (newly born) Commander in Chief. Aye, aye sir! Now President Obama, lead us to a similar victory in Afghanistan. We can do it!

I didn't have the space over the weekend to run this Kathleen Parker column, but I think it's worth getting in for our online readers.

In it, Parker counters the impression that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal made in his response to President Obama's speech Tuesday. Jindal was royally panned, even by many conservatives.

Here's Parker's take on the "real" Bobby Jindal.

I liked the old Bobby Jindal better — the one whose brain moves so fast, he’s already indexing questions his interviewers haven’t thought of yet.

What did they do with him?

The Jindal who responded to Barack Obama’s address to Congress was less the brilliant statesman than a terribly mixed metaphor — equal parts Mister Rogers, Bobby Brady and Kenneth the Page.

I know Bobby Jindal, and that guy wasn’t Bobby Jindal.
The real Jindal is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear power plant. The real Jindal has actually read the stimulus bill and can recite its contents. The real Jindal is the sort of politician who promises ethics and education reform, and actually delivers.

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