| To be fair, the Washington Post is the hometown newspaper of the greater Washington, DC area, read by senior and mid-level government staffers so they can keep abreast of the latest in-group gossip. |
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again.
The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal politicians for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: "The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut." But the newspaper even took it a step further: "If the last week has shown anything, it’s that the federal bureaucracy performs too many ’nonessential’ tasks that do not have a direct bearing on the lives of most citizens."
Can pigs fly? Are we living in a parallel universe? Are chimpanzees dropping in from the cosmos? The Left will cry "state-run media." Finding this kind of hot take within the pages of one of the most anti-Trump newspapers in circulation is like finding a real conservative on the Nicolle Wallace show.
Of course, The Post played both sides by caveating its nod to libertarian economics: "At the same time, the government also performs many critical functions." However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the newspaper’s open rebuke of the Democrats’ incorrigible grandstanding over Obamacare subsidies is a sight worthy of beholding.