Quote of the Day

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| Mon Jun. 8, 2009 9:32 PM PDT

From George Will, demonstrating that he's about nine months behind the curve on state-of-the-art Obama crackpottery:

"I," said the president, who is inordinately fond of the first-person singular pronoun, "want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector."

Jesus.  This would be an embarrassingly fatuous thing for a supposedly serious columnist to write even if it were true.  But a bare minimum of fact checking shows that it's not.  It's really, really, really not.

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