“Whether it was a historic achievement or political suicide for his party,” David Sanger of the New York Times observes that the president seems to have reshaped the nation’s social welfare system. Unlike many other major reforms, however, the process was not bipartisan. Peter Wehner, a political adviser to President Bush, said, “once people discover that their Medicare taxes are going up, that there are deeper cuts in Medicare Advantage, that there are court challenges to many provisions, and that the process of getting it passed created a portrait of corruption, it won’t sit well.”