WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

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THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON:

What Difference Does It Make?

 

Column: America is already feeling the harmful consequences of Obama's reelection

BY: Matthew Continetti —

February 1, 2013 5:00 am

Sophisticates, cynics, and moralists of all stripes long have held that there is not “a dime’s worth of difference” between the Republican Party and the Democratic one, and that elections might as well be settled by a toss of that very same dime. But the talk-show host or fringe activist who assumes such a flippant attitude toward partisan politics might check his beliefs against the events of the past week. Every day brings news that would be utterly different had Mitt Romney won the 2012 election. To answer the question Hillary Clinton recently posed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in another context: The facts on the ground make all the difference indeed.

There is also the question of priorities. The U.S. economy has been sagging for years, the deficit is vast, and entitlement programs are not prepared to handle the coming retirement of the Baby Boomers, so naturally President Obama’s top legislative priority is amnestying 11 million illegal immigrants

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"The people have spoken, and now they must be punished."

Ed Koch