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Thirsty in the EU

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Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the “bendy banana law” look “positively sane”.

He said: “I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration.

Do Political Conservatives Understand Liberals?

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And do political liberals understand themselves?
Elizabeth Warren: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own”
Conservative George Will repsonds: “Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the ‘social contract’”
Progressive Greg Sargent responds to Will: The conservative response to Elizabeth Warren

Does either party recognize their position in the critique of the other?