LINK: Matthew Yglesias captures Andrew Sullivan being oddly arbitrary:
"For one thing, I can't wait for Andrew to bring his enthusiasm for having the public sector account for 33% of GDP to his adopted homeland -- I believe we're at around 18% right now. Tell you what, I'll be a "small government conservative" too and settle for 25% Everyone's happy!
But really, why would you have an arbitrary target like this. Say there were a really, really, really big war -- mightn't government spending need to go way up? I mean, I don't know, maybe it wouldn't, but it seems like it might."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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