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In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that \ufffdgovernment is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.\ufffd While the quip has provided Republicans with a cheap slogan for two decades, the philosophy behind it is beginning to box them in. If they govern effectively, they invalidate their own antigovernment ideology. And when you elect people who believe that government won\ufffdt work, you shouldn\ufffdt be surprised when government stops working.
-Markos Moulitsas Z\ufffdniga