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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, October 22, 2004

Liberal media strikes again

The New York Times provides a fact check article examining Bush's attacks on John Kerry's health care plan. Here's the article, in it's entirity as of midnight PDT:
In Downingtown, Pa., yesterday, Mr. Bush said the Kerry plan "involves bigger and more intrusive government." He said it would "expand the government's health care rolls by nearly 22 million," leading to "the largest expansion of government health care in American history." He said "8 out of 10 people" who obtained health coverage under Mr. Kerry's plan "would be placed on a government program" and small businesses would have the incentive to drop their private insurance and throw people into government programs. He said the Kerry plan would cost $1.2 trillion.

I guess all those statements are facts, in that Bush did claim all that. But I expected a little more from the so-called "liberal" New York Times.