Rich Lowry: On Obamacare, a Partywide Failure

There's stumbling out of the gate, and then there's what Republicans just did on health care.

They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd fast track to passage, didn't seriously try to sell it to the public, fumbled their internal negotiations over changes -- and suffered a stinging defeat months after establishing unified control of government.

There has been a lot of finger-pointing after the collapse of the bill, and almost all of it is right. This was a partywide failure.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has -- faint praise -- thought more about health care policy than...