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Where responsibility lies, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Source: National Review Online

Nov 09, 2009

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Just want to say a word about the passage of “national health care” -- maybe not a very welcome word. There comes a time, I think, when you have to point to the American electorate, who put those Democrats in place: in the House, in the Senate, and in the White House. Pelosi et al. did not shoot their way in; they didn’t stage any kind of coup. They were all elected, by good ol’ Amurricans.

I don’t know about you, but I have never had much patience with the argument that the Republicans “deserved” to lose in 2006. You know the line: “We spent too much, there was too much corruption in the House, George W. Bush was sloppy in his immigration proposal . . .” Well, in American politics, there is always a choice, or most always. If your beef is spending, will the Democrats spend less, or more? Will the Democrats be less corrupt, or more? (Think of the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel.) Are the Democrats more to your liking on immigration?

Consider last year’s presidential election, too. The line here, from many Republicans, is, “Oh, our candi

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