Stein writes,
In 2001, [Susan Orr] pushed a proposal to stop requiring health insurance plans for
federal employees to cover birth control on the grounds that "fertility is not a
disease."
There is, perhaps, one explanation for George's embrace of such regressive policy. Perhaps he failed to update his internal, neural software as a precaution against the Y2K bug, and did, in fact, start over from zero in 2000, disregarding two millenia of progress.
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You know, I kept thinking after Bush's inauguration that we, as a nation, had taken about four steps forward with Clinton at the helm and were now taking 12 steps back.
the odd waltz of progress is not linear.
That explanation sound quite plausible.
Sometimes Saintly,
Thanks for stopping by R World. And yes, the scariest thing about George is that the most absurd explanations seem the most plausible.
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