Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation's capital for America's left, explained: "Why Democrats Won the Shutdown."

The most accurate declaration in the article is "fights tell the country a lot about what--and who--the fighters care about."

And there should be no question what the Democratic Party is about: to miss no opportunity to accumulate political power by fostering, as widely and as deeply as possible, a culture of government dependence in America. And to pay the bill for this by bankrupting our country.

"Affordability" is the political buzzword du jour now. No one wants higher prices.

But the way to lower prices is greater efficiency in businesses delivering the products and services we care about. The government's role in this is removing, to the greatest extent possible, unnecessary regulations and taxes.

However, for those that love........

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