"Whatever you may think of the merits, there's no point in bashing your head against the wall".
With Brownback as governor, Kansas is in the midst of a self-described economic ''experiment,'' a project that, whatever you think of its merits, is one of the boldest and most ambitious agendas undertaken by any politician in America.
The public fascination with term limits, the line-item veto--whatever one may think of the merits of those proposals shows that voters are willing to consider systemic explanations as well as moralistic ones for their government's manifest failures.
To start, there is the idea of holding funding for the entire federal government hostage to an immigration-policy fight, which, although now a Washington practice employed by both parties, is still a pretty terrible idea, whatever you think of the merits of the Democrats' case on the Dreamers.
Here we go again with the Democrats presenting, you know, a very complicated plan, and the Republicans coming out with a quite bold, and seemingly simple way to get at it, and a much more clear-headed one, whatever you think of the merits of the arguments.
Whatever you think of the merits of the positions, the debate in Washington was good for both parties.
Whatever you think of the merits of the AWB, you have to admit that this ban put legislators in the business of gun design.
Whatever one may think of the merits of Fodor's arguments for concept nativism or of his recent anti-learning stance, it should be emphasized that LOTH per se has very little to do with it.
Any number of promising binary debates can inspire the rival camps to fierce passions: think of immigration, the merits of free trade or whether to talk to Hamas.
Whatever you think of the relative merits of the great world religions, that argument still holds good.
