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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, April 06, 2005

Inappropriate analogy of the day

AP:
"[Social Security privatization] is like being for the Civil Rights Bill in 1960," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., emerging from a meeting of the rank and file.

Yes, Tom, destroying the future of Social Security is very much akin to providing equal rights to a group that had struggled for equality for years.

Friggin' awesome.