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With liberals like this, WaPo doesn't need conservatives

March 09, 2010 12:56 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen claims:

The health-care bill has almost no near-term benefit for anyone who votes. Its immediate beneficiaries are the uninsured, consisting of the poor and vulnerable, and the young and delusionally invincible. As a voting bloc, they largely don't. 

That just isn't true.

And remember, Cohen is what passes for a liberal at Fred Hiatt's Washington Post, home of the nation's worst opinion pages.

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    • Author by Invent a Scandal (March 09, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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      Wasn't it young people who helped Obama win the presidency?

      I guess they made phone calls and knocked on doors but decided against voting.

      Jeez! Cohen is a loon.

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    • Author by goesto11 (March 09, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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      I think I understand this logic.

      If you don't vote, you shouldn't get medical care when you're sick.

      So....

      You also shouldn't be able to drive on paved roads that are paid for by tax dollars unless you vote.

      And your kids shouldn't get a free public education.

      And firefighters shouldn't respond when a non-voter's house catches fire.
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      • Author by DAWUSS (March 09, 2010 2:39 pm ET)
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        Just combine that with the GOP's desire to have voter tests...
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    • Author by goesto11 (March 09, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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      And call me crazy, but doesn't a free society also give its citizens the right NOT to vote if they choose not to?

      Sheesh.
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    • Author by FGFM (March 09, 2010 1:46 pm ET)
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      Cohen has been a disaster for decades. He blamed the OKC bombing on assertive women or something like that.
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