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...American liberals have long complained that ours is the only advanced industrial country without universal health care. Well, now we shall have it. And as we approach European levels of entitlements, we will need European levels of taxation...
Sarah Palin doesn't really do compromise. Defiance is more her style. So when other Republicans began to go soft on their promises to "repeal and replace" Barack Obama's landmark health care reform, the former Alaska governor went reliably rogue. Wearing a trim black leather jacket and pencil skirt, Palin appeared at a rally for John McCain in Arizona and urged the GOP faithful not to quail now. "I see Fidel Castro likes Obamacare, and we don't," she taunted. "Doesn't that tell you something...
...thousand dollars and attracted the kind of crowds and media coverage that McCain can no longer bring in on his own. And the Senator continued his conversion from a maverick unafraid to compromise with Democrats to a Republican determined to thwart Obama's agenda, starting with overturning the new health care law. "It's going to be repealed and replaced, and it's going to be done soon," McCain thundered. "It will not stand...
Democrats know keeping control of Congress in November will be a challenge, but they believe that the passage of health care reform gives them a chance to hold their losses to a minimum. Palin doesn't see it that way. "We're taking our country back, and we're starting right here in Nevada," she told the Searchlight crowd, many of whom chanted for her to run for President. For Palin, health care's passage was not the end of a long battle but the start of an entirely new war. And she sounds more than happy to lead...
SOURCES: EDUCATION WEEK; DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES...