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" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

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" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "

" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "

" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "

" Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. "

" Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. "

" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "

" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "

" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "

" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president. "

" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "

" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "

" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "

" If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' "

" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "

" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "

" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "

" I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes. "

" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "