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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Government Should Cut Spending to Offset Katrina Costs

By Radley Balko
Fox News


The end price could well be several hundred billion dollars. Pundits and editorial boards on the left are calling for even more spending — to rebuild the city, to compensate those who lost property in the flooding, and to address the class and race issues they say the storm exposed.

I find this all very hard to swallow. In its sluggish and inept response to Katrina, government at the local, state, and federal level failed on a massive, catastrophic scale. And the response is….we need more government?

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