THE GENIE'S REVENGE

DON'T PITY THE REPUBLICANS. PAT BUCHANAN IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE

IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT LIBERALS ARE AT FAULT FOR nearly everything that is wrong with the world today, from welfare to your cat's fur balls. But you would think that liberals could not be blamed for Pat Buchanan. Yet some conservatives have even tried to pin the rise of this fiery right-winger on liberals. They note that Buchanan bases some of his screwy ideas on the work of an obscure economist, whose name he picked up from an article by the liberal journalist James Fallows. They observe that Buchanan's concerns about layoffs and middle-class insecurity (though not his proposed solutions)...

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