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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.

Monday, March 08, 2010

Video: The arrogance of statism exposed

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Via Radio Vice Online and Newsbusters, a seminal moment in American politics from George Will. Will and Robert Reich debated health-care reform yesterday on ABC’s This Week, and Will punctured two of Reich’s arguments. First, he refuted the idea of windfall profits at health insurers, whose margins typically range from 2% -6%, depending on the year. (Computer manufacturers have 20% margins by comparison.) But Will scores an even bigger point when he reduces Reich’s retort to its basic premise — that Americans are just too stupid to act on their own:

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