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Bush's segment on insurance tax deductability probably didn't resonate with anyone. Don't get me wrong, it might be a fine hum-dinger of a plan. But the mind wanders when you have Bush trying to read off numbers.
I was just annoyed as to what he thinks people who are too poor to afford insurance are going to use to buy insurance
with so that they can get it deducted from their taxes later on. If they had the money, they'd buy insurance. Or food. Or pay their gas bill.
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"We must stay until victory is achieved" is pretty much diametrically opposed to "Our committment to the Iraqi government is not open-ended".
I'm a big softie, but I have to say I was touched by the "this is not the conflict we got into, but it's the conflict we're in" line. Some part of him has got to carry this screwup around for life, and it almost sounded more like he was asking for understanding instead of demanding compliance for once. I appreciated that.
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I could write a book about No Child Left Behind.
Would it be a scary book?
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I'm a little lost on what the civil volunteer whatever team is supposed to be for.
I think to handle reconstruction and the like without having to pay through the nose for civil contractors.
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Maybe it was just the camera angle, but I'm almost certain that McCain fell asleep during part of the speech.
He was mourning the loss of earmarks.