Sarah Palin & My New Year’s Resolution
Posted by Matt on January 20, 2010
Quit Smoking. Brush up my Spanish Language skills. Stop rewarding myself with a full bottle of wine after every time I exercise.
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These are all ways I could improve myself. But let’s be honest: I don’t smoke that much. Wine tastes good. Mi español está más allá de ayudar. Huh?
Anyway, for the last year-and-a-half, I’ve had this knot of stress sitting somewhere between my soul and kidneys. The source is readily apparent, born of annoyance, contempt and incredulity. The source is Sarah Palin. There’s a simple solution to eradicate this source of stress from my life: For 2010, I’m giving up Sarah Palin.
The timing of my resolution coincides perfectly with Palin’s move to Fox News, perhaps the most predictable hiring since Quaker Oats nabbed Wilford Brimley. Or as the newswire on avclub.com appropriately read: Fox News Hires Sarah Palin As Commentator Because Of Course They Do.
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Articulating why Palin bothers me is not difficult. If you search the site archives, you’ll find many previous manifestations of my disdain. It’s obvious Palin fits the mold of many leaders of the Far Right: a media creation great at simultaneously vilifying the media and selling her self-righteous, faux-populist image; while maintaining a dangerous unfamiliarity and lack of knowledge about public policy, foreign affairs, and any culture outside of Palin’s so-called, “real America.” (See Presidents #43 and #40)
In fact, it was the “real America” bullshit that probably ignited my dislike for her. Stupidity and ignorance I understand. Hell, I can relate. However, her contempt for those not like her (urbanites, Eskimos, etc.) is palpable and disgusting. Her villainization of government employees is Reagan-esque. By Palin’s own definition, the 9/11 attacks weren’t even perpetrated on “real america.” So instead of warmongering about countries you know nothing about, maybe you should fucking zip it.
I give Ms. Palin credit for managing her image. She’s a perfect fit for Fox News. She has cultivated her image, manipulated her followers, and is collecting some serious coin. As a more-seasoned Carrie Prejean, she plays the victim perfectly. Softball questions from Katie Couric or Charlie Gibson are quickly labeled “gotcha” questions from a “liberal” media, only because she can’t answer them. She uses her beauty pageant and newscaster experience to deflect any valid criticism as unfair, and nonsenically answers most other questions in common clichés and colloquialisms. She promotes “her” book via facebook + lifestyle shows, refusing to talk to actual journalists outside the Fox News bubble. Amusingly, in one of her many interviews with the sycophantic fluffers of Fox News, Palin couldn’t even give Glenn Beck a straight answer:
BECK: Who’s your favorite founder?
PALIN: Um… you know… well, all of them, because they came collectively together with so much–
BECK: Bull crap. Who’s your favorite founder?
PALIN: –diverse. So much diverse opin–So much diversity in terms of belief but collectively they came together to form this union.
She ended up answering “Washington,” while simultaneously letting it be known that she didn’t like the question. In fairness, Washington is my favorite founding father too. However, I’m not sure why she was so terse. I would consider that a lightweight topic for a political entertainment show, or a 6th grade US History class.
Anyway………………
While politicians are almost universally full of hypocrisy, it’s really hard to compete with Palin:
- She rails against “big government” and “socialism,” while formerly presiding over the country’s most socialist government.
- She indignantly chastises anyone who doesn’t pay strictly positive attention to her family, while conveniently using them as props to advance her own interests.
whoa, whoa! Cashiers' check first, then leave us alone.
Republicans in Congress this June united to defeat a proposed windfall tax on oil companies, deriding it as a bad idea that would discourage investment in U.S. oil exploration.
Things worked out far differently in the GOP stronghold of Alaska, a state whose economic fate is closely tied to the oil industry.
Over the opposition of oil companies, Republican Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska’s Legislature last year approved a major increase in taxes on the oil industry — a step that has generated stunning new wealth for the state as oil prices soared.
And…
Palin’s administration last week gained legislative approval for a special $1,200 payment to every Alaskan to help cope with gas prices, which are among the highest in the country.
Bah! Socialist! And Like Beck, she supported Bush’s TARP bailout before she was against it. (just like the “Bridge to Nowhere.”)
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
And
“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter)”
See that?! Letterman would never make a joke about anyone else. How dare he?! Leave my kids alone! My body my choice! (oh wait, that’s not it) My kids are off limits…Until Barbara Walters comes by. When’s that? 2 p.m.?
I could go on and on, but it doesn’t matter. Why? Her critics recognize all this shit, and her supporters simply don’t care. As long as she passive-aggressively blames “others,” couches everything in folksy language, and claims a sort of divine inspiration, Palin’s “real American” supporters could care less what policies she supports or what she actually stands for, as long as she keeps feeding them vague, populist bullshit.
Palin has legions of blind followers. People are overcome with tears during her book tour. From Going Rogue Ghostwriter Lynn Vincent,
The room is supposed to be private, but obviously someone leaked, and before we can even be properly introduced, there’s a mob outside. One guy has photos of aborted fetuses he wants her to sign for Operation Rescue. Another guy, in a golf shirt, yells, “The magic Negro is making my money disappear, Sarah!” An elderly woman is weeping, pleading for SP to sign a photo for her grandson, who was wounded in Afghanistan.
Certainly, Obama has his share of true believers as well. But there’s one key difference: Sarah Palin is a quitter. She has quit almost everything she has ever started. She has never done anything to demonstrate that she doesn’t act solely out of self-interest.
And to take a page out of Palin’s book, I’m goin’ rogue. I’m quitting Sarah Palin.
That is not to say I will ignore Palin forever. Unlike some liberals who scoff at the idea of Palin’s political future, I think she’s a formidable figure. This country elected fucking George W. Bush. Twice. While I doubt she will ever be president, she is as important as any GOP member at the moment. As Nate Silver points out in his 10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nomination:
Now then, do I think Palin is the favorite to win the Republican primary? Not necessarily. She’s certainly not the majority favorite and perhaps not the plurality favorite, depending on who runs. And you could fairly easily come up with a set of ten bullet points to argue against Palin’s chances. But I think she’ll run, and I think it would be a mistake to discount her chances too significantly given the makeup and mood of the Republican primary electorate.
Palin’s new position at Fox News will exponentially increase the amount of Palin-BS dumped on Americans. If you want, that’s something you can try to fight or put up with for the next 11 months. Not me, cuz I’m not playing this round.
So, to former Governor Palin, mother, wife, pundit, fraud, I say…til next year.
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Paul Comes said
Thanks for the laughs with this one.
It’s been a discouraging week and I came to your website with the intention of ranting about the gridlock sure to ensue in congress, our broken government, Republicans now with the votes to stand in the way progress, I’m giving up on this country yet again, etc, etc.
Laughing at Sarah Palin is really the best way to deal with her. Here’s hoping that pain between your soul and kidneys disappates and you don’t accidentally land on Fox ‘News’ while flipping thru the channels. My odds aren’t so good while living with Koucky. I’ll be the first one to turn on the TV in the morning and sure enough perky Fox and Friends scares the shit out of me. I have to take a step back, take a deep breath, contain myself and then change the channel. My breakfast just doesn’t go down as easily.
riano said
You deserve an epic slow clap session for this one Matt. Incredible stuff.
Question: Given the opportunity, would you Snooki-punch Palin?
Tony said
Matt, great blog! Precisely hysterical. I was not aware Palin biffed Beck’s founding fathers question so badly. I agree that Palin as president or anywhere in government would be a major disaster and I am alarmed at the following she has here in the US. I actually think that Fox News is a good place for her and her opinions so maybe she will just stay there and diffuse like Governor Huckabee.
Matt said
Paul – Don’t worry bud. If Obama ever remembers he was elected with a large majority on a platform of progressive promises (almost none of which have been passed), we’ll be better off. If not, you’ll still have people like Palin to kick around.
Riano – Call me a socialist, but unlike Ms. Palin,I beleive sex assault victims should have their rape kits paid for by the State. Furthermore, I do not support domestic abuse or girl-beating (unless it’s consensual). https://gratuity.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/sarah-palin-femisogynist/
Nonetheless, a tempting offer because of the term “Snooki-punch.” Can you copywrite that, or is it too late?
Tony – I don’t disagree with that.
While I agree with very few of his policy-positions, part of me likes Huckabee. He appeals to the same part of the population as Palin, but seems 1000x’s more genuine and actually has a soul. That’s pretty rare in politics. I would never vote for him, but I wouldn’t necessarily sleep on him for GOP 2012 either.
Tony said
Matt-
It has been a while since we have agreed. Maybe the divisive political tide is turning in the US and Americans will see Liberal and Conservative principles for what they are rather than what cable news declares them to be.
I do like Huckabee as well especially his stance on dismantling the IRS and reforming a simple Constitutional apportioned tax code. I would vote for him, but I don’t think he has a broad enough appeal for President. Maybe VP though.
Thanks for writing you blogs. I enjoy them and they challenge us to think outside our boxes.
Paul Comes said
Matt-
I feel better today than I did yesterday and much better than Tuesday night. I think we might find ourselves at odds over how best the Dems strategically and tactically try to pass health care reform and other progressive legislation you and I both agree upon.
I have to re-think my stong held belief that you can’t pass any sifnificant legislation without 60 Senators on board. That said (Curb reference) I still hold that position. Reconciliation now becomes more relevant because we may not have any other recourse to pass legislation. But from my limited knowledge on how reconciliation works, I know there is a reason Dems avoid it and it is wrought with limitations and sunset clauses. It isn’t ideal. I think many on the left wants the Obama admin to give a big Fuck You to the right and say, we’re doing this without you and we’ll use every legislative avenue, above or below board, to get it done. And maybe that part of the left has it right. Again, I have to re-think. But from what we’ve seen from the White House since the Mass special election, it doesn’t look like they’ll go that route as evidenced by their statement that they will wait until Scotty Brown gets seated. And Senators such as Jim Webb concurred.
I know it’s political sport and popular opinion that Dems are inept in getting their troops in line to pass legislation over the objections of the right. And John Stewart as well as you have said GWB did whatever the fuck he wanted. I disagree with that. GWB did do whatever he wanted after Sept 11 because Dems and the press lacked spine and, like fascists, Repubs cast anyone who didn’t jump on board as unpatriotic. However, beyond Iraq (which is a story unto itself) and two rounds of tax cuts (always popular), they didn’t pass anything of substance without some Dems cooperating (Patriot Act). Repubs refuse to work with Dems because, for the most part, their agenda is simple: make Obama fail. They don’t give a shit about governing, just winning elections (tangent). In GWB’s second term, he didn’t pass any meaningful domestic legislation (remember social security) and did not ‘do whatever the fuck he wanted.”
What I’m fusutrated about is simple, and I know you disagree with this: You cannot do anything without 60 votes in the Senate. And because of that, I beleive our government is largely broken and unable to pass needed legislation for our country to make progress and respond to the needs of its citizens.
If I hear one more Repub state that the Dems haven’t reached out to work on legislation, I will put a fist thru my TV. Short of writing the legislation themselves, Repubs will not sign onto any bill. In any other western democracies, when a party gets elected to the majority, they go in a write the legislation and it gets passed. Not in our case. Its frustrating. I’m frustrated.
While I agree with some of what the dissatisfied left has been openly critical about, I do think they have an irrational belief that Obama can wield power like a King: break-up banks, strongarm unwilling Republicans to bending to his will, closing Guantanamo in a day, end two wars within a week, and institute single payer health care come Feb 1. It’s easy to be critical from the sidelines. It’s a lot harder to literally enact change from within. This far too often gets lost on the left.
There’s a lot I wish he’d done that he didn’t do (make the health care legislative process more open and not give any consideration to negotiating with health insurance companies; bigger stimulusl; enact far more substantive financial reform (they will)) but I know you can’t move into Washington and expect the political realities yesterday to disappear overnight. The lobbying industries interests didn’t disappear overnight with the election of Obama.
I’m holding out for the fact that meaningful change never happens easily or without a fight. We have to be stronger and more resolved to those who stand in the way of real progress. You and I agree as to what that progress is, we just disagree about how we’re gonna get there.
I needed to write. Thanks for the forum.
Paul Comes said
And I kinda like Mike Huckabee. Does that appease the crowd on the right that otherwise can’t stand me? Probably not
Matt said
Paul – Sorry to say it, but I am so fucking sick of the Obama apologists. If you don’t think any president can get stuff done without 60 senators, then you’re basically saying he’ll never get anything done b/c 59-41 is as wide as it’s going to get for the next 3 or 7 years. Sure, the GOP is obstructionist – that fits perfectly into their “small govt.” + “Govt can’t be trusted” platform they pretend to represent whenever they’re out of power.
What is inexcusable is that with only 40/41 Senators, the GOP has been able to control the message. If you go on an issue-by-issue basis, this is still a center-left country. Obama won by millions of votes on a fairly progressive platform. The defeatism I saw from Webb, and especially Feinstein, following the Brown win is absolutely inexcusable. Even more inexcusable are the Dems blaming the “Left.” I want to punch Evan Bayh in the fucking dick. This is why they’re not getting shit done – not the fillibuster requirement.
They have to be out there explaining why the GOP is openly obstructing and defeating, explaining why we need HEalth Care reform now, and rallying the fucking troops, instead of criticizing people like Howard Dean and Feingold, and bending over for self-serving scrubs like Lieberman. BO has to be leading the charge, and quite frankly, he hasn’t been. People want real reform in a lot of areas. He’s the Goddamn leader of the fucking Free World. But I guess that’s what you get with a chief-of-staff who despises liberals and when you surround yourself with Wall Street insiders like Geitner and Summers.
If I wanted another triangulating, pole-riding centrist, I would’ve voted for another Clinton. Come on dude! The Left is the base. If Obama + Emanuel think we’re going to come out in the same #s in 2012, let alone 2010, that would be a gross miscalculation (as can be seen in MA).
As Greenwald + Ezra Klein note:
“In what universe must someone be living to believe that the Democratic Party is controlled by “the Left,” let alone “the furthest left elements” of the Party? As Ezra Klein says, the Left “ha[s] gotten exactly nothing they wanted in recent months.” The Left wanted a single-payer system, then settled for a public option, then an opt-out public option, then Medicare expansion — only to get none of it, instead being handed a bill that forces every American to buy health insurance from the private insurance industry. Nor was it “the Left” — but rather corporatist Democrats like Evan Bayh and Lanny Davis — who cheered for the hated Wall Street bailout; blocked drug re-importation; are stopping genuine reform of the financial industry; prevented a larger stimulus package to lower unemployment; refuse to allow programs to help Americans with foreclosures; supported escalation in Afghanistan (twice); and favor the same Bush/Cheney terrorism policies of indefinite detention, military commissions, and state secrets.”
and speaking of controlling the message, this is what I’m fucking talking about…
“And then there is the “Blame the Left” theme from Obama loyalists, who actually claim that the Democrats’ problems are due to the fact that the Left hasn’t been cheering loudly enough for the Leader. I recall quite vividly how Bush followers spent years claiming that the failings of the Iraq War were not the fault of George Bush — who had control of the entire war, the entire Congress, and the power to do everything he wanted — but, rather, it was all “the Left’s” fault for excessively criticizing the President, and thus weakening both him and the war effort.”
There is not a group more politically impotent in Washington, than the Left. And as of 2010, this still hasn’t changed.
Yet look at how the Bush WH was successful and full of shit at the same time! Just think how effective you can be when you can push an appropriate, truthful message.
Paul, BO is the leader. It’s time he pushes Emanuel + co. aside and do what he said he came here to do. No more fucking excuses.
Paul Comes said
As brief as I can be:
I agree BO needs to fight harder for the progressive reforms he was elected to enact. The fact that he’s lost the message on health care to the minority party and interest groups is the Admin’s fault. And you’re right, the fact that 41 (42 including Leiberman) can ‘control the message’ and basically dictate how far the 58 Dems can take legislation is in part a failure of delivering the clear message on health care reform but also in part the reality that exists in a Senate that cannot pass any meaningful legislation without 60 votes.
But what I find completely hair pulling is to hear people like Arianna Huffington and others on the left completely disregard that reality. They’re living in fantasy land where all of our progressive agenda will get passed because the right will bend to our will. And yes, I am saying that you can’t pass legislation without 60 Senators…and that is wrong, wrong, wrong. The procedural filibuster leaves our government broken.
The only option the dissatisfied left offers is reconciliation. As Krugman points out in his column today, there are several reasons why any meaningful health care reform has to be comprehensive, can’t be passed in bits and pieces thru reconciliation and might not even be possible.
So deal with the political reality that you need 60 Sens to pass health care and give me concrete solutions to how you pass meaninful heatlhcare reform. Becuase that’s the political reality that Obama and Dem leaders wake up to every day. And many have done their best to actually get the legislation thru. Otherwise the dissatisfied left will always be principled idealists who never actually accomplish any meaningful reform.
Here is my initial thoughts on how to actually get this passed.
1- Follow Krugman’s advice and call on house Dems to pass the Senate Bill. Politically, it probably won’t play well with main stream America but it’s the right thing to do. It pisses me off that some house dems can’t compromise their own interests and get behind the bill because, honestly, it’s our last best option.
2- If that doesn’t happen, continue to work on reconciling the house and Senate bill so that both majorities in both houses agree to it. The house passes this bill on a party line vote. We take the bill to the Senate. Obama works his ass off to get the message to the American people about how good the bill is, paints the Repubs as the obstructionist they are, and he gets 1 or 2 Repubs to agree to the bill. If not, make Repubs filibuster that will show Americans how obstructionist they really are.
3- Use reconcilliation to pass the parts of the bill you can’t get in the big bill.
Please tell me how else you can get comprehensive health care reform passed because that’s what we’re trying to do.
I can’t be brief.
Matt said
i’ll address that:
1- Follow Krugman’s advice and call on house Dems to pass the Senate Bill. Politically, it probably won’t play well with main stream America but it’s the right thing to do. It pisses me off that some house dems can’t compromise their own interests and get behind the bill because, honestly, it’s our last best option.
First thing out of Obama’s mouth on Wednesdat was not to do this. If you’re a supporter of the bill (i’m lukewarm), doesn’t that bother you? SAy what you want about Nancy Pelosi, but she has been the only one busting balls this past year. If she had BO’s support, this could get this done. Instead, his lack of decisiveness has some Dems retreating (and rightly so – why should they put their necks out).
2- If that doesn’t happen, continue to work on reconciling the house and Senate bill so that both majorities in both houses agree to it. The house passes this bill on a party line vote. We take the bill to the Senate. Obama works his ass off to get the message to the American people about how good the bill is, paints the Repubs as the obstructionist they are, and he gets 1 or 2 Repubs to agree to the bill. If not, make Repubs filibuster that will show Americans how obstructionist they really are.
3- Use reconcilliation to pass the parts of the bill you can’t get in the big bill.
We both know Bush got significant legislation passed w/o 60 and through reconciliation. If a HC bill has to be budget neutral, roll back his fucking tax cuts for the top 1% (the only segment of America to benefit financially over the last decade.) If you can sell Wall Street reform, you can sell this.
It can be done. By immediately taking reconciliation off the table from the start of the negotiations, he boxed himself into a corner. Too fucking bad.
Obama has to drop the guise of bipartisanship and start attacking, or as the Economist put it, “Take Off the Gloves.” He can get 50+ 1 for comprehensive, and could probably get 60 if necessary for the current bullshit bill out of the 2 tools from Maine. It is partly a matter of how bad he wants it, and I’m SO SO sick + tired of the ineffectual hand-wringing. Yes, the procedural rules of the Senate are archaic. Did you hear the GOP whining about it for the last 8 years?
Some have preemptively portrayed Obama as being Carter-esque. It’s arguments like yours that lend truth to that assertion. I have no sympathy for a man ruling with a clear mandate from the people and huge majorities in both houses (and I’m not just talking about health care). If he can’t get it done, he’ll be a 1-term president with no one but himself and that douchebag from IL-5 to blame
Paul Comes said
1- Ok, you’re right. I didn’t know Obama siad that but I had a feeling the Admin wouldn’t be on board with that because they think, given the election result in MA, it will look insidious to now pass a health care reform bill in a less than honest and ethical manner. I agree with you and Krugman and I think they’re wrong to make that political calculation on a bill that was passed by 60 Senators and still has the support of 59. Agreement.
2- I agree for the most part. Although Bush passed tax cuts twice with reconciliation ( both popular bills and this bill, while health care reform in general is popular, isn’t popular) he didn’t pass any other significant legislation that I know of. And he didn’t get any significant legislation passed in his second term that I know of. However, to take reconciliation off the table is wrong and it looks like that might be our best option.
I have a feeling you and the Obama admin are going to be at odds over strategy and tactics for the next 7 years. I do think they’re acting both on principle and political calculation. You’re saying the Admin should use whatever tactics necessary to get legislation he campaigned on passed. Yet, you and I both derided those tactics when Repubs used them. So to now say we should stoop to their untoward tactics to get our legislation passed lends itself to hypocrisy. On the other hand, you may be right. Krugman, rightly or wrongly, has been consistent in his belief that you simply can’t work with the right at all and that we should try and pass our legislative agenda, dissention and bipartisan ship be damned. And he is looking more right every day. I understand what you’re saying.
The admin still wants broad and bipartisan support for their legislation and policies. You’re right, BO and congress was elected by an electorate supporting the progressive agenda he campaigned on. So their attempt at bipartisanship, compromise and trying to please everyone may have been an ill-advised strategy. We’ll see how they move forward and if their strategy ever really works. Right now, it doesn’t look like they’re changing course and you have every right to be upset with them.
Just read your last paragraph. It’s giving credence to the Carter-Esque comparisons, those comparisons coming from the right, that is destructive to the liberal agenda. You’re way off and need some fucking perspective. I like Glen Greenwald, Kos and other liberal bloggers but get out of their world for a brief moment every day and read some fucking objective news. You don’t think Obama wants most of the same things they and you do. Do you have to get your policies passed by congress? It’s like congress doesn’t exist for you guys. I can’t hammer it home enough, those bloggers and pundits are on the outside looking in. Obama is in there doing his best and while he may have made some mistakes, there is no public figure I trust more. Please do tell who will do a better job? Who will get your liberal policies passed that is electable in a general election? Reconciliation cures all, ok sure. Repubs passed maybe 3-4 bills under reconciliation under Bush my research tells me. This notion that GWB did anything he wanted for 8 years is just hyperbolic generalization. 2-3 yes, not 8.
1 Term? Fine, you deal with Mitt Romney come 2012.
I don’t like fighting
Matt said
“Just read your last paragraph. It’s giving credence to the Carter-Esque comparisons, those comparisons coming from the right, that is destructive to the liberal agenda. You’re way off and need some fucking perspective. I like Glen Greenwald, Kos and other liberal bloggers but get out of their world for a brief moment every day and read some fucking objective news. You don’t think Obama wants most of the same things they and you do. Do you have to get your policies passed by congress? It’s like congress doesn’t exist for you guys. I can’t hammer it home enough, those bloggers and pundits are on the outside looking in. Obama is in there doing his best and while he may have made some mistakes, there is no public figure I trust more. i Please do tell who will do a better job? Who will get your liberal policies passed that is electable in a general election? Reconciliation cures all, ok sure. Repubs passed maybe 3-4 bills under reconciliation under Bush my research tells me. This notion that GWB did anything he wanted for 8 years is just hyperbolic generalization. 2-3 yes, not 8.”
I do read Greenwald + TPM almost every day. Similarly, I read the bbc + Economist almost daily, 2 relatively objective sources that also have the luxury of not being part of the Beltway media establishment. It’s not just liberal bloggers who recognize the need for more resolution on behalf of BO. The fact remains the GOP hasn’t had 60 Senators since 1911. Think of what Reagan got passed. As for Bush, yes, tax cuts were “popular,” but they needed to use reconciliation b/c the Dems (rightly) didn’t support it. Listen to what you’re saying – The people support health care reform, but they don’t support this bill. Who’s fault is that?
I agree w/ you and trust Obama more than the other leaders of both parties. That’s the discouraging part. If he can’t get it done, then who will? As an individual, I will support him because I’d vote for a Koucky/Giannop ticket before the GOP’s standard-bearers. But he better get his act together, (a) because the fence-sitters won’t; and most importantly (b) this country needs progressive reforms to save the middle class, move towards energy independence and restore the rule of law.
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