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Unintended Consequences of Credit Card ‘Reform.’ “‘We basically socialized the bearing of the risk,’ said Ken Clayton, managing director of card policy for the American Bankers Association, a trade group. ‘That’s why good customers sometimes have to bear the cost of the risk that others pose.’”

Ponnuru on Repositioning Conservatism. “The [GOP] problem has instead been that voters have not thought Republicans of any stripe had answers to their most pressing concerns. Addressing those concerns, rather than repositioning itself along the ideological spectrum, is the party’s main challenge.”

Big Ben on Twitter

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Ponnuru on the GOP’s Economic Naysaying “Shouldn’t we have a fallback plan in case the economy recovers? I think Republicans would be better advised to say that there are some good signs, none of which seem connected to liberal policies, and that those policies threaten to increase inflation before too long.”

Right Answer, Wrong Reason. Even the New York Times calls for changing the tax treatment of health care–but to raise revenues for another big spending plan, not to limit government distortions in the marketplace.

Washingtonian Cheap Eats — Google Map.

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