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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Me thinks Jonah Goldberg knows this, but liberals weren't calling for Americans to 'sacrifice' during the early stages of the Iraq War for any reason other than the hope that calling for Americans to sacrifice (higher taxes, whatever) would lessen American popular support for the war.
And that's why Obama isn't calling for Americans to sacrifice now, he doesn't want them to become any more resistant to his plans than they already are. He knows it would be fatal, for example, for his health care plans to tell Americans they need to sacrifice by paying more in taxes or in higher premiums, or by having to wait twice as long for medical care, just as he knows his environmental plans would be DOA if he lets slip that the cost of just about everything we buy is going to go up.
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