I’m getting tired of listening to the idiots carping about nationalized health care. They are, by and large, complete fucking idiots.
The question posed at Arlen Specter’s town hall was obscene—yet representative of so many in the tea party crowd who want to derail the discussion on health care reform.

This is about the systematic dismantling of [...]

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If you had asked me 20 years ago … or even 10 years ago for my thoughts on capitalism, you would have gotten one of the most individualistic, libertarian, small government, low tax discussion about the appropriate roles of government and economics and how they integrated with each other. And it wasn’t simply a mouthing [...]

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Anyone who has had a brush with conservative economic or political principles will readily recognize the language that is used to communicate such simplistic ideas. “Taxation” becomes “redistribution of wealth”; structured tax brackets become “punishment for success”; social welfare programs become “the government teat”; and anything less than laissez-faire capitalism becomes “socialism.”
These terms are great [...]

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