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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Principled Politics – 12/09/09

Michelle Malkin: The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery
How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance "holocaust in America", lambasted conservative health care town hall protesters as "political terrorists", sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman's private residence, and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama's fuzzy math savings claims. Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leading them deeper into demagogic mire. Read more…

Jonah Goldberg: The Real Fat Cat Party
  One of the great frustrations of the libertarian-minded right is how Republicans got stuck being "the party of big business."…
  The notion that big business is "right wing" has always been more sloppy agitprop than serious analysis. It's true that historically, big business is against socialism and communism -- and understandably so. Socialism and communism were once close to synonymous with expropriation of wealth and the nationalization of industry. What businessman or industrialist wouldn't be against that? But many of those same industrialists saw nothing wrong with cutting deals with statist regimes. For example, the Swope Plan, put forward by Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, laid out the infrastructure for much of the early New Deal. Read more…

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