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OKAY, I LINKED THIS STEPHEN GREEN COLUMN EARLIER, but this bit is worth quoting on its own: Candi?

By Glenn Reynolds

OKAY, I LINKED THIS STEPHEN GREEN COLUMN EARLIER, but this bit is worth quoting on its own:

Candidate Barack Obama ran as a moderate. He promised a ?net spending cut.? Health reform was not, we were assured, intended to take over the insurance industry or feature an individual mandate. Taxes would go down for anyone making under $250,000 a year. ?Too big to fail? was to be a thing of the past. Our nation was to become post-racial by the long-awaited election of a black man to the White House. And so it goes.

Instead, we got? more of everything. Taxes, spending, regulating, mandates, racial division ? the entire liberal waterworks turned up to the max and pretty much all at once.

Indeed. And those broken promises are Obama’s biggest weakness.

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