Carolina QuotesRepublicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
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Random Thoughts, 26 August 2008.
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