Central Sanity: Politically Convenient is Not Always PC

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Politically Convenient is Not Always PC

Michael vdG expresses (quite well) what I've been thinking for some time now, as I watch GWB repeatedly shoot down the expanded SCHIP bill. Of course, the other irony Michael omits is Bush seemingly ignoring the bipartisan support this bill has, as creatively illustrated Monday by Jim Wallis, to whom we also linked in yesterday's CoA feature at TMV.

1 comments:

suzesliv said...: GWB asks for 50B in War money, but we can't take care of poor children. Yeah......that works for me.; 9/26/07 12:54 PM

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Stephen Millich

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Anatole France

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John Adams

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HL Mencken

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Frank Herbert

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Sir Francis Bacon

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Aldous Huxley

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Groucho Marx

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Peter Ustinov

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