A well-developed sense of irony can be a very useful thing to a politician. From Paul Krugman:
"I don't want the people who ran the Katrina cleanup to manage our health care system," says Mitt Romney...
Good reason not to vote for Republicans, I think. Particularly, if you're on Medicare...
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