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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The groovy trick mastered by Republicans from these states is to rhapsodize about small government while tirelessly working to divert federal money to their states.
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Robert Byrd invented that.
I don't think it's limited, as you say, to republicans. Everyone inveighs against pork, but when the trough it put out there, they all dive in up to their elbows. That's why pork exists, and why commons get overgrazed.
The only distinction you offer that has meaning, methinks, is that republicans in recent history purported to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
