1.0 link 129619 <![CDATA[No Future for You.]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-frank/no-future-for-you_b_129619.html A seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout plan? Weren't Republicans supposed to be opposed to deficit spending? Weren't they the party that was all about balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility?

That's what Republicans say, of course. And now they tell us they wish they didn't have to take this course; that the bailout violates their own first principles; that they're so, so sorry. But none of this is true. At some point in the first Reagan administration, Washington conservatives (as opposed to your average conservative...

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