The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Not So Good

As "Engine Charlie" Wilson used to say: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country, and what's good for the country is good for General Motors." (Though the media usually omitted the corollary half of the saying.)

By these lights, the country should be prepared to shut down next spring.

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Reid Collins is a former CBS and CNN news correspondent.

http://spectator.org/blog/2005/11/21/not-so-good

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The American Spectator

The Spectacle Blog

Not So Good

About the Author

Special Feature

A Time for Choosing

James Piereson

Empowering Individuals or Bureaucrats?

Rep. Paul Ryan

The Road from Serfdom

Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara

The Millennial Perspective

David N. Bass

FLASHBACK TO: 1984

The Fairness Delusion

Media Smears: One Man’s Experiences

Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists

The Reagan Doctrine

The Woman Problem

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