{"id":2508,"date":"2008-05-17T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/which-one-is-the-lesser-of-two-evils\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T14:53:28","slug":"which-one-is-the-lesser-of-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/which-one-is-the-lesser-of-two-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"Which One is the Lesser of Two Evils?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABQjournal NM: Candidates Clash Over Health Care<\/a>
By Jeff Jones<\/a>, Journal Politics Writer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I’m supportive of our rural health (care)\u2014 I’m a product of that. I don’t have any desire to hurt them,” Pearce said. “But what I do desire is to start reining in the people who are literally stealing from the American public<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

ABQjournal NM: Candidates Clash Over Health Care<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s quite an accusation from Steve Pearce — literal public theft. Who are these thieves? Blackwater, KBR? Are they the doctors Republicans wish to protect from rapacious lawyers? Are they the small business people Republicans claim<\/em> to revere (while they actually<\/em> revere only the very biggest corporations)?<\/p>\n

This is the fundamental Republican view that infuriates me the most: All taxation is theft. There is no Commonwealth and no common good — every man for himself, every property is private. This extremely destructive view angers me far more than the utter hypocrisy of seeing all public expenditures as theft *except* for the limitless war machine. Pearce would have us look closely at expenditures on public health — I don’t recall him suggesting the same for the billion an hour we piss away in Iraq.<\/p>\n

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“Here’s one of the differences between Steve and I<\/em>: I will not vote against the interests of the state of New Mexico to satisfy a narrow ideological agenda<\/strong>,” Wilson said. “He will always vote to supposedly save money, even if it makes no sense\u2014 and that’s what he did here.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She means “me,” not “I.” But, OMG, she really is a liberal! How can any Republican vote for someone with such shifting standards. Flexibility is weakness! Compromise is failure!<\/p>\n

peace, mjh<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal NM: Candidates Clash Over Health Care By Jeff Jones, Journal Politics Writer “I’m supportive of our rural health (care)\u2014 I’m a product of that. I don’t have any desire to hurt them,” Pearce said. “But what I do desire is to start reining in the people who are literally stealing from the American public.” … Continue reading Which One is the Lesser of Two Evils?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}