Avoiding déjà vu all over again

The late Yogi Berra coined the phrase “it’s déjà vu all over again!” It is used extensively to describe political miscues.

Case in point: ObamaCare.

Recently, Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel wrote a column describing President Obama’s failure with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “The vision of the president calling on his party members to—yet again—lay down their political lives for his ‘signature’ law was a reminder of how this disaster began.”

Unfortunately, Republicans, who now control Congress and the White House, maybe poised to repeat the same mistakes Obama and Democrats made in...