Over at In the Agora, today is a special issue. Ronald Reagan's famous 11th commandment was "thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican", and given that most of the writers there are Republicans they decided to break that commandment and devote a day to criticizing their own party. I'm not a Republican, of course, I'm a libertarian, but I gladly joined in on the bashing with a post about the laughable notion that Republicans are actually interested in "smaller government". Go and read all the entries.
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