Michael Kinsley on All Topics
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“The "Reagan Resolution" allows for only two apostasies per candidate. By my count, Ronald Reagan committed at least four. Good thing Chairman Steele made the whole thing voluntary. It would be sad to think that the Republican Party no longer has room for Ronald Reagan.”
“Why can't the Democrats be the class act here and just drop it? Sticks and stones, and all that.”
“Most complainers tend to be ideologues whose vision of an accurate newspaper is far different from that of the professionals.”
“The reason Americans have turned against health-care reform, after electing President Obama in part for promising it, is simple: Despite protestations to the contrary, Americans don't like change.”
“What might Anne Wexler have accomplished for causes that she really believed in if she hadn't spent the last three decades of her life taking on any cause that walked in the door with a checkbook in hand?”
“Trying to stop insurance companies from behaving like insurance companies creates other perverse incentives.”
“With his remark that the Cambridge, Mass., police acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Obama managed to extend the story by a week or more and to turn a nice little summer amusement for the political opinion industry into a "teachable moment."”
“There are two risks in comprehensive health-care reform. One is that it won't pass -- and a second failure would doom the project for decades. The second is that it will pass but won't work.”
“With the demise of newspapers, the important job of currying favor with big shots will disappear.”
“Whenever an issue gets drawn into the political system and becomes explicit, it becomes harder. That is what health-care reform will do to the question of rationing.”
“It would have been nice if Sotomayor, with all her accomplishments, had been secure enough to laugh at the invitation to join this parody of elitism. But not many people who have risen so far so fast are so secure. Republicans ought to find that reassuring.”
“'The Star-Spangled Banner' has got to go. The only question is, What should replace it?”
“Marty's great gift as a proprietor is that he will tell absolutely anybody to [expletive] off. There is no better protection for press freedom.”
“Nowhere is a bit of diversity more obviously desirable. Nowhere is the case stronger for taking race, ethnicity and gender into account. And conservatives apparently agree. If only they could bring themselves to say so.”
“Miss California's views on gay marriage have nothing to do with her qualifications for the job and shouldn't disqualify her for it.”
