On this view, the government may now merely be repeating the mistake it made when it once tried to stop Chrysler installing radios in its cars.

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Santorum said that Republicans should nominate him now instead of repeating the mistake of 1976 by going with the moderate Ford, who lost to Jimmy Carter, but West said Santorum's underlying strategy for staying in the race appears aimed at 2016 as much as 2012.

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Sadly Commissioner Kroes is repeating the classic socialist mistake of being so eager to carve up and re-distribute the last piece of pie in the tin that she forgets that someone has to have the incentive to produce and pay for the next pie, if good pie is to remain available in the future.

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The Fed, now similarly blind to the inflation threat, is repeating its mistake, only this time the negative consequences will be even more dire.

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Making any mistake once was OK, but repeating that same mistake a second time was NOT OK. The hard, fast rule was that if you made any mistake for the first time the entire team would have your back in fixing that mistake if anything went wrong.

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If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.

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