historical perspective

March 19, 2010

If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is going to be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states — the Great War of Yankee Aggression.

I remember hearing that phrase for the first time delivered by a 90-something archbishop in a sermon at a summer camp I worked at in Virginia — it was shockingly ridiculously gorgeously idiotically beautiful.

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