Real Time New Rules: Maher Lambastes GOP's Hatred of Government

By Heather Saturday Mar 07, 2009
CrooksandLiars

This is one of the better New Rules segments I've seen from Maher in a while. He ends it with channeling Michael Moore with his criticism of insurance companies in this diatribe on the Republicans and their anti-government rhetoric and love of the private sector.

Maher: The thing is that endless variety only exists because Americans pay taxes to a government which maintains roads, irrigates fields, over sees the electrical grid and everything else but enables the modern American supermarket to carry forty seven varieties of frozen breakfast pastries.

Of course it's easy to tear government down. Ronald Reagan used to say the nine most terrifying words in the English language were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." But that was before "I'm Sarah Palin, now show me the launch codes."

You know the stimulus package was attacked as typical tax and spend, you know like repairing bridges is left wing stuff. Ooh, there the liberals go again. Always wanting to get across the river.

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