- Nov 07, 2020
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- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
- Bills
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- Nov 07, 2020
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
- Greenhouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.
- Babble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
- Likes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
- Nov 07, 2020
Expressing truth is hard work.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.
- Demoralized
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
- Devolved
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- Nov 07, 2020
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
- Middle Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
- Eliminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
- Nov 07, 2020
Working people vote!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
- Nov 07, 2020
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
- Cheney
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020