Top 21 Kevin Drum Quotes
#1. We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.
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#2. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.
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#3. Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.
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#4. We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.
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#5. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.
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#6. [Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.
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#7. Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.
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#8. Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.
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#9. Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.
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#10. Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.
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#11. On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.
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#12. Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.
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#13. The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.
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#14. We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?
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#15. You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
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#16. Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.
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#17. Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
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#18. Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
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#19. I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
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#20. Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.
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#21. They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
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