The Left’s search for a foreign template to graft onto America grew more desperate. Why couldn’t we be more like them — like the French, like the Swedes, like the Danes? Like any people with a larger and busier government overawing the private sector and civil society? You can see it in Sicko, wherein Michael Moore extols the British national health-care system, the French way of life, and even the munificence of Cuba; you can hear it in all the admonitions from left-wing commentators that every other advanced society has government child care, or gun control, or mass transit, or whatever socialistic program or other infringement on our liberty we have had the wisdom to reject for decades.
Everything everyone outside our borders does is bad. Remember when those Greeks invented democracy? And those damn founding fathers took that craaaazy European idea and imposed it on freedom-loving Americans! Good thing Rush and Glenn weren't around back then. They'd be apoplectic.
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Yeah, Russ Feingold is now more conservative than Joe Lieberman and Blanche Lincoln. I guess he's given up on the presidency. Also note the distinct lack of Republicans in Congress' ideological middle. Those guys are all bunched in over at the far right, even the likes of
The majority vote is tyranny of the minority.
Got it? And up or down vote is tyranny of, um, well, see, um, Democrats are in charge, and if they ram health care through, uh, via reconcialiation, you see, then the minority are, uh, imposing their will on the, ummm, majority, which is actually the minority, and Americans don't like that!