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...thrust of the plan is rather odious from a free-marketeers' perspective. Canada employs socialized medicine to provide U.S.-made medicines at lower prices. America's free-market system, which makes drug companies (gasp!) profitable, also motivates them to develop the blockbuster drugs that Americans are so sick of paying market prices for. The plan would try for the best of both worlds, using Canada's socialized medicine as an end-run around U.S. pricing - and screwing U.S. drug-companies out of their profit margins in the process...
...Governor. Jeb had already decided to run again, having made his millions (although W.'s $14.9 million sweetheart payout for his share of the baseball team gave him more, faster). Jeb told the New York Times--when his jokes turned up in W.'s speeches and when odious comparisons (like this one) became commonplace--how he feared that the brother thing could turn into a PEOPLE magazine story. W., surprisingly, was first to win a statehouse; Jeb, the anointed one, lost before he won. Barbara Bush went around exclaiming, "Can you believe...
...odious or ordinary. But becoming president makes him suddenly splendid - or at least impressive. The magic office gives him the radiance of power. In early 1969, the Washington Post's liberal cartoonist Herblock granted to his old nemesis Richard Nixon a famous "free shave" - a fresh start, the refulgence that comes with the Oval...
...mind a bloodbath that is thoroughly bipartisan. Let the Clintons be the first to go. American politics will not be healthy until they are purged from the system. Issue exit visas to Trent Lott and Tom DeLay, to Dick Armey, to the ancient and awful Strom Thurmond and the odious Jesse Helms. Let the ostraca fall upon the bombastic charlatan Jesse Jackson, upon Henry Hyde and Maxine Waters, upon Barbara Boxer and Orrin Hatch...
...presidential races in the past; I know there have. In fact, the choice last time, in 1996, was unappetizing enough. But something in me this year has snapped. The debate almost had me throwing things at the television. The mere sight and sound of these two men has grown odious; the election has come to seem the dead end of some massive hoax...