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...American should nurture an enormous tolerance that is enabled by the assumptions 1) that American life ought, above all, to be fair, and 2) that there's enough here for everyone. But tolerance to a Tocquevillian is condescension to a Gramscian. Gramscianism lives on an invidious and Europeanized zero-sum kind of thinking about power...
...months ago, when the Bush-Cheney administration was still but a gleam in William Rehnquist's eye, we opened our hearts, and we allowed ourselves to believe. Seeking only to serve our country, we went to the Bush-Cheney transition web site and giddily sent you our résumés. We had but one small expectation: That someone, somewhere, in that vast transition team of yours would take the time to glance over the record of our professional lives before rejecting...
...toward the dark side, a.k.a. the GOP - applied for pretty much every job in the administration. And thanks to the magic of the Internet, it only took her three or four minutes. Check off a few boxes, scroll down a couple of listings, cut and paste a résumé, and that's it - you're in the running to become secretary of state. Isn't America great...
...people - has forsaken us without so much as a backward glance. And if not, we'll just find a nice deserted cabin in the middle of Montana, buy some camouflage and a copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" and start working on improving our résum...
...sum, California dismantled its private power-generating industry without securing adequate power supplies. The Big Three utilities, which in addition to PG&E and SCE include San Diego Gas & Electric, sold off plants to outsiders like Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C., and Reliant Energy of Houston and became middlemen. But the state wouldn't allow these new intermediaries to enter long-term purchasing agreements for fear they would be locked into fixed-price contracts as prices dropped. Their purchases had to be made on the so-called spot--or cash--market, and prices were low at the time...