The Spiral Down certainly conjures up the image of a flush, away from Constitutional government and the principles of the Founding Fathers

Or, should we say, in the current politically-correct way, the Founding Mothers, of the Mommy State which is "Christian and Muslim, ..."? It's no wonder that the teachers' unions have conspired to abandon the teaching of real history in our schools, the better for some to distort it.

The Toxic Assets We Elected / George Will
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One selection of hypocrisy, among many from this article: A leading Democrat trying to abolish the right of workers to secret ballots in unionization elections is California's Rep. George Miller who, with 15 other Democrats, in 2001 admonished Mexico: "The secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they might not otherwise choose."