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If the Republicans want to make the scandal at a few veterans' hospitals into an argument against socialized medicine, they…
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Wait. What? Is it me, or has George Will descended into a cantankerous crank?Can someone please remind me of when…
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I think you have this exactly right, Booman. Both the distinction between the two cases, with the Rice rejection the…
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That second part is not substantially different from irresponsible hack Robert Samuelson's latest. Credit-where-due, Samuelson does express support for the…
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Well, yes (re: "looks like a real asshole"). But then again, the same charge could be pointed at "look forward,…
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Minor edit re:Making people hate each other is at the core of right-wing politics. Making people hate each other is…
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Hm. I don't think this is actually what he's proposing (in part cuz it'd be stupid, even for him): If…
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2 words: cheap poison. And for that reason, likely the chief culprit in our current obesity epidemic.
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It's so weird the way rightwingers vie with each other to displace the classic example and poster-child for  chutzpah: that…
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"Great minds [ . . . etc.]
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Exactly. Good point on subsidies -- true. Yet assholes like Sterling manage to think of themselves as Masters of the…
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Hahaha! How much more right could I possibly have been?
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Not sure it seems all that strange! Plantation owners pulled off essentially the same 'feat' (right down to the mixed-race…
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Or, as I've seen roughly the same point put very succinctly: '"they" only think it's "class warfare" when we show…
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I curse the right-leaning editorial stupidity of my local rag dropping Krugman in favor of Samuelson's dreck within the last…
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re:Sens. Scott and Enzi are facing the electorate, too, but seem to be free from serious in-party challenge. Wait, I…
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re: . . . In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a…
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Well, I am gobsmacked that nobody in this thread, nor booman in the original post, highlighted that other time Rummy…
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But wait, isn't he in his seventies? Think you may be selling him short!
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Hm. OK. Stipulating that I recognize this is relatively trivial stuff. (Otoh, clarity of expression seems to me always worth…
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