30 September 2009 - Granite Grok

September 30, 2009

So, healthcare is SO

When you think about it, the GOP position on health care is so untenable and unpopular it almost makes you feel bad for their position. Yeah, Dean, real unpopular:   So much so, your own Party members refused to vote for it.   So much for the "reality based community". This is not about healthcare reform …

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Notable Quotes – Walter Lippman

Paule Rahe points out words of Walther Lipmann (emphasis mine): the partisans who are now fighting for the mastery of the modern world wear shirts of different colors, their weapons are drawn from the same armory, their doctrines are variations of the same theme, and they go forth to battle singing the same tune with …

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Stealing by any other name…

   Hopefully this Atlas WILL shrug… Guest Post by Robert Romano  Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer can call the Waxman-Markey carbon cap-and-tax bill to be introduced in the Senate anything they want. “Pollution reduction.” “Cap-and-trade.” “Carbon limits.” But, at the end of the day, it’s still a tax. And it’s still stealing. As a …

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