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July 20, 2010

Americans Want Big Government

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post


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I've listened to Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" video. I've watched the Tea Party movement evolve from a joke into a political force. I've read up on the primary candidates who want to take back government, take down government, burn down Washington.

I've seen all of it, I hear all of it and I don't believe any of it. A rose is a rose is a rose -- and hypocrisy is hypocrisy, whether it takes the form of champagne socialism or mama grizzlies who would go on the rampage if, God forbid, their mortgage tax relief were ever taken away.

 

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