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Mark Steyn: More More More - How do you like Andrea True’s federal government?
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | November 26, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/28/2011 10:45:09 PM PST by neverdem

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How do you like Andrea True's federal government?

I see Andrea True died earlier this month. The late disco diva enjoyed a brief moment of global celebrity in 1976 with her ubiquitous glitterball favorite: 

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How do you like it?
How do you like it?
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How do you like it?
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In honor of Andrea’s passing, I have asked my congressman to propose the adoption of this song as the U.S. national anthem. True, Miss True wrote the number as an autobiographical reflection on her days as a porn-movie actress but, consciously or not, it accurately distills the essence of American governmental philosophy in the early 21st century: excess even unto oblivion.

When it comes to spending and the size of government, only the Democrats are officially panting orgasmically, “More More More, How do you like it?” while the Republicans are formally committed to “Less less less.” This makes for many dramatic showdowns on the evening news. In the summer, it was the “looming” “deadline” to raise the debt ceiling. In the fall, it was the “looming” “deadline” for the alleged supercommittee to agree $1.2 trillion of cuts. The supercommittee was set up as a last-minute deal for raising the debt ceiling. Now that the supercommittee’s flopped out, “automatic” mandatory cuts to defense and discretionary spending are supposed to kick in — by 2013...


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: supercommittee

1 posted on 11/28/2011 10:45:12 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Andrea True? Like the song and she was hot. Not so much at the end.


2 posted on 11/28/2011 10:49:34 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: JLS

Ping


3 posted on 11/28/2011 10:51:50 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

I hope enough people are getting buyer’s remorse.


4 posted on 11/28/2011 11:00:35 PM PST by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

ARRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!

Nightmare City


5 posted on 11/28/2011 11:07:51 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
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To: neverdem

Steyn will be guest hosting for Rush on Tuesday.


6 posted on 11/28/2011 11:13:02 PM PST by iowamark (Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
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To: neverdem

The trouble with “more, more, more” from the government is that when I look at my own, personal finances, I invariably see “less, less, less.”

And since I tend to be more self-reliant than not, I get exactly NO, NO, NO benefits from most of the government’s programs.

Let’s face it - that “more, more, more” is what our massively corrupt politicians pay out for VOTES, VOTES, VOTES from those with a penchant for grabbing at the property of others.


7 posted on 11/28/2011 11:45:17 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: neverdem

Lyrics sometimes had to be cleaned up for radio.....

Maybe that “more, more, more” line could have been “porn, porn, porn.”

And needless to say, the growth of big government and our national debts is, indeed, pornographic.


8 posted on 11/29/2011 12:10:18 AM PST by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: neverdem

Lyrics sometimes had to be cleaned up for radio.....

Maybe that “more, more, more” line could have been “porn, porn, porn.”

And needless to say, the growth of big government and our national debts is, indeed, pornographic.


9 posted on 11/29/2011 12:10:44 AM PST by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: neverdem

Lyrics sometimes had to be cleaned up for radio.....

Maybe that “more, more, more” line could have been “porn, porn, porn.”

And needless to say, the growth of big government and our national debts is, indeed, pornographic.


10 posted on 11/29/2011 12:10:58 AM PST by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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