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When a Republican administration is losing Field & Stream ...

Rolling Back the Clean Water Rule Would Be a Disaster for Sportsmen

 

Try selling this to all the Trump voters it's going to hurt. Taking things away from people that they've come to depend on doesn't go well.

 

If a baseball team took one of its nine players off the field, that's 11 percent less.

See how many runs you prevent with only eight players on the field.

 

Health care doesn't have an identifiable boogeyman to fight. "We must do all we can to keep those illegal cancer cells from invading our red-blooded good cells" just doesn't cause a nation to rally for the cause.

American politics MUST MUST MUST have a boogeyman. We've wasted trillions of dollars in the last 70 years on whatever boogeyman --- real, invented or just exaggerated --- best suited our needs at the moment. In this respect Trump is no different than anyone else in the Oval Office.

 

I'm not disagreeing here necessarily, but I don't follow you. My whole long life I've been watching TV ads for charities, agencies, hospitals, etc. that "fight" disease. It's been labeled as the boogeyman since forever. I don't grasp your point.

 

Just another verse in that old favorite: "I'm in favor of cutting government spending, except for my favorite program."

 

As expected, Maddow's show on Tuesday dominated the ratings. Her highest rated show. But what will the long-term cost be to her reputation?

Rachel Maddow’s Trump tax show dominates cable ratings

 

A hundred times this people. Is it asking too much to understand?

 

When I worked at the Phoenix, the paper's state house reporter, Dick Gaines, taught me a most valuable lesson. "The reason that fat doesn't get cut from budgets is that the fat is there for even better reasons."

 

"Cancer" isn't enough of a boogeyman?

That's a big part of what NIH does, or soon used to do.

 

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