A Strange Choice of Words From the White House on the Public Option

Here’s a curious piece of the health reform speech delivered today by Christina Romer, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the Center for American Progress:

A public health insurance option would be a credible entrant in concentrated markets, and would serve as a competitive,

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Jim DeMint’s CPAC Quote of the Day (So Far)

If anyone doubted that “socialism” was the hot new term in the halls of CPAC, making a big comeback from the late 1970s, here was Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just now:

Earlier this week, we heard the world’s best salesman of socialism address the nation.

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Bush: Free Markets Will Fix the Troubles Caused by Free Markets

Congressional Democrats may be pushing for some concessions from the finance industry in return for the billions they’re receiving in taxpayer bailouts, but President George W. Bush has other ideas. From today’s Washington Post: