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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

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Paul Begala with the line of the night (so far)

CNN:
But when President Bush talks about "fixing" Social Security, I think of when the vet said he was going to "fix" my dog Major. He fixed him alright. But that which once worked fine didn't work no more, and Major wasn't too pleased with either the process or the result.


Runner up for honesty:
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.: "The Bush administration's so-called 'Social Security crisis' is a worthy successor to the so-called 'Iraq nuclear weapons crisis.' WMD used to stand for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Under President Bush's Social Security privatization plan, WMD now stands for "Watch your Money Disappear."