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Conservatives Must 'Obstruct and Delay' Obama: Kristol

GOP can check rush toward big government

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:57 AM CST

(Newser) – The “day of reckoning” has come for Republicans, writes William Kristol in the Washington Post. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered “the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech” since Lyndon Johnson, and seems poised to undo the whole Reagan agenda. “Conservatives can’t... Read full story »

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