Posted by Josh Rosenau on February 25, 2010 This is his actual argument against allowing the Senate to pass healthcare reform by a simple majority:
the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule
Is that why we hate Hugo Chavez now? Because of his profound commitment to majoritarian rule? Yes, that must be why conservatives dislike him.
Perhaps Newt is still upset that those lousy majoritarians in the House defeated his Contract on America.
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
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February 26, 2010