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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-crane4-2009nov04,0,277258.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-crane4-2009nov04,0,277258.story</a>
<blockquote>The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.</blockquote>
<insert bumpersticker here about hope, change, death panels>
<blockquote>As for the GOP, it has outwardly abandoned the limited-government principles of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Little other evidence is needed than the Medicare prescription drug benefit -- with its $13-trillion unfunded liability -- passed with a strong-arm campaign by the Bush White House and a Republican congressional majority.</blockquote>
WHOA! What pinko wrote this drivel?
<blockquote>Edward H. Crane is the founder and president of the Cato Institute</blockquote>
For all of Obama's problems, duplicity isn't one of them. Okay, I'm taking stuff out of context, but think about it...Goldwater would *@Y& if he saw the GOP today.
<blockquote>The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.</blockquote>
<insert bumpersticker here about hope, change, death panels>
<blockquote>As for the GOP, it has outwardly abandoned the limited-government principles of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Little other evidence is needed than the Medicare prescription drug benefit -- with its $13-trillion unfunded liability -- passed with a strong-arm campaign by the Bush White House and a Republican congressional majority.</blockquote>
WHOA! What pinko wrote this drivel?
<blockquote>Edward H. Crane is the founder and president of the Cato Institute</blockquote>
For all of Obama's problems, duplicity isn't one of them. Okay, I'm taking stuff out of context, but think about it...Goldwater would *@Y& if he saw the GOP today.