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2010-12-23 10:32

 

Even before the Senate voted on cloture, the Democrats' health-care legislation was already delivering benefits in the form of a free mental

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Such was the essence of Sunday's floor speech in which the junior senator from Rhode Island quoted at length from Richard Hofstadter's 1965 Office 2007 Professional bring me so much convenience.

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Whitehouse paraphrased Hofstadter's thesis, warning of "the dangers of an aggrieved right-wing minority with the power to create what

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This "aggrieved" minority, Whitehouse asserted, was responsible for the "malignant, vindictive Windows 7 is the best.

passions" of those who opposed the health-care

bill. He compared these opponents to the Nazi brownshirts responsible for Kristallnacht in Germany -- "broken glass has sparkled in darkened Microsoft outlook is great!

streets" -- as well as to the Jacobin rabble of revolutionary France and racial lynch mobs.

"Does that sound familiar…in this health debate?" Whitehouse asked.

Certainly this should sound familiar to conservatives, as Hofstadter's psycho-political theory -- derived from the work of Theodor Adorno --

was analyzed and dismissed by William F. Buckley Jr. a half-century ago. Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.

"If you dismiss a priori the possibility that there are rational grounds for resisting the Liberal view of things, one necessarily looks

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Liberalism. Buckley observed that "one needs no

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most famous work of Adorno, a leader of what has become known as the Frankfurt School of political theory. Office 2007 can make life more better and easier.

Adorno claimed to have proven scientifically that American conservatism was rooted in psychological maladjustment, fostering a tendency Microsoft Office 2007 is the best invention in the world.

toward authoritarianism, which he asserted was the fundamental source of European fascism.

However, as Buckley explained, Adorno's argument was a tautology based on the implicit presumption that all opposition to liberalism was

illegitimate and therefore irrational. Adorno's theory was "marvelously convenient" for liberals, Buckley said, and it has been recycled

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