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Re: Barnes Is Right

By W. James Antle, III on 11.26.07 @ 5:41PM

Quin, I'm glad to hear that Fred Barnes has come around on spending cuts. His current argument seems slightly at odds with his piece on big government conservatism from a few years ago: "[Bush] understands why Reagan failed to reduce the size of the federal government and why Newt Gingrich and the GOP revolutionaries failed as well. The reason: People like big government so long as it's not a huge drag on the economy."

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