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Sometimes you can lie yourself stupid, so probably both.
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Her tenure having featured notable defeats as well as victories, she should frame that editorial as the surest proof that overall she did a damn good job. I hope Obama names her deputy Bob Perciasepe to fill her post. He's got the credibility to sail through nomination and not lose momentum transitioning.
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They are smart enough to know that a lot of their readership is stupid enough to roll with it, and quote it at dinner tables as if they know what they are talking about.

Hell, I had a libertarian friend tell me the other day that Bush's spending on the two wars "did not count" because the money was put into some kind of fantasy "escrow account." Where is this account, and where is the money now? Who knows?

The bubble is unbelievably thick in some places.
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The WSJ has been part of Murdoch's 'fair and balanced' media empire since the mid 2000's if I recall correctly. It's been a variant of fox news with line art and an official looking typeface since then.
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What @4 said. It used to be that the WSJ's editorial page was reliably wingnutty, but their economic reporting was top-notch - as you'd expect from the paper that all the financial big leaguers depended upon. But since Murdoch bought the paper some years back, he dragged the rest of the paper down to the editorial page's level.
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How is this stupid or shocking?
The right wing echo chamber always makes up the "facts" they want to believe.
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i bet i hear this from my dad soon...
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This is the Tea Party meme. Heard it last night from Dick Armey. Even though he's taking $8 million to leave the Tea Party, he still is very concerned about the EPA's effect on the recovery. Do we have to be a party to the endless flow of shit from the Tea Party/RNC/Fox?

DICK ARMEY: No, not at all. First of all, understand, the tea party is not a political party. It is a group of people across the country that have a commitment to a set of principles. They believe economic growth is the first most important need of this country, which means get the government to stand down, quit interfering, quit obstructing growth, in so many ways, not the least of which is the EPA.
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Economic growth is not the government's duty. In fact, if the government were to make that a focus of their work, all of the small government crowd would hate it, screech about the government picking winners and losers, and kvetch about the government exceeding its proper role - and they would be right.

The government has only two duties: to protect our rights and to invest in public resources for the public good.

The EPA protects the people's rights because we all have an interest in the non-toxicity of the air, water, and soil. If someone is polluting my air, they are violating my rights.
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@9,

I agree with you on the role of government, but I disagree with you about how the "small" government people would feel about government taking an active role in the economy. They love it when the government picks winners and losers; they just want the winners to be them, straight, white, Christian men, and the losers to be all the rest of us. For evidence, you need only look at how they've reacted to the 2008 and 2012 elections and how they've treated Obama over the past four years.
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@5 -- It should be noted that this post pertains to a specimen of WSJ opinion-page dreck, not WSJ news-page dreck.
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The thing that baffles me when people claim environmentalism harms the economy, it's taking an angle the tech industry has been using forever: planned obsolescence. You replace your old gadgets with new ones, thus ramping up product and the hope is to have the new tools use less resources. That's the important part, fuel is only going to get more expensive. Best to focus on efficient use of it before you get out priced.
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@12, agree. They are working off the Citibank plutonomy in America memo. It's a return of the robber barons: steal as much as possible for the wealthiest and forget everyone else and the future of the country.

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