Eric Florack on November 8th, 2007

Bruce at Q&O:

  A and an week or so ago, I stated:

We read that polls are telling the Democrats that the mood of the people has swung toward being receptive to more and bigger government. Some argue it’s

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Fersboo on November 6th, 2007

Via Library of Economics and Liberty

Arnold Kling highlights a truism of the left in the Great Health Care Debate:

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2007

There has long been discussion about why Congress is generally speaking not the best place to be leaving secretive information, particularly when democrats are in charge.  This is a primary aim sample of why, from TPM:

This summer the

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

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And so I come home, and I see this one waiting in Memeorandum, from Chuck Adkins:

I cannot believe that Glenn Beck would make such as statement:

Let’s talk about health care and education? That’s not the way to win. 

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Eric Florack on October 21st, 2007

Mark Steyn today:

steyn22.jpgLast Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

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davidl on October 19th, 2007

In the thirty eight years since Woodstock, Free Love has morphed into government hand-outs, or such was Mrs. Clinton’s intent.   Robert Novak, Washington Post:

Will the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

Ya know, I wasn’t going to address this SCHIP hysteria for a while. I really wasn’t. But in reading Michelle’s excellent piece just now, a thought occurrs that I think should be captured. The trigger:

What if I told you

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

Rick Moran, of the Right Wing Nut House, whom I have been taking to the woodshed with some degree of regularity of late :

I didn’t want to write about the SCHIP imbroglio again today but frankly, I find

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