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If I Ran the Zoo —
Jim Leach last night: The party that once emphasized individual rights has gravitated in recent years toward regulating values. The party of military responsibility has taken us to war with a country that did not attack us. The party that formerly led the world in arms control has moved to undercut treaties crucial to the defense of the earth. The party that prides itself on conservation has abdicated its responsibilities in the face of global warming. And the party historically anchored in fiscal restraint has nearly doubled the national debt, squandering our ...
Kathleen Reardon: What Hillary Did Last Night And Whose Court The Unity Ball Is In Now
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... America is at a crossroads where we can do what's best for the inordinately wealthy or we can do what's best for the rest of us. That's the choice. It affects all other issues whether healthcare, the economy, Iraq, social security, immigration, women and minority rights, or foreign policy - to name only a few. Our choice boils down to putting people in the White House who, as former Republican U.S. Representative Jim Leach said Monday, "once emphasized individual rights" but have "gravitated in recent years toward regulating values" or a Party that lives by American values. ...
Obama v. Gramm
The Corner on National Review Online —
... defending Phil Gramm from Obama's nonsensical and dishonest attacks is great. So much for Obama's new politics. But I think my colleagues left out one useful point. Obama's attack on Gramm hinges on his demonization of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. Fair enough. But one question NR might have asked: If Gramm's judgment was so awful, and the bill so terrible, what does it say that the DNC was so proud to have Jim Leach, the legislation's co-author, endorse Obama at the Democratic Convention ? ...
