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  1. grind to a halt
    be unable to move further
    So the case that America is grinding to a halt because of high taxation is not based on facts but is simply a theoretical assertion.
  2. woolly-headed
    confused and vague; used especially of thinking
    It turns out that conservatives are the woolly-headed professors after all.
  3. shy away from
    avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task
    Today conservatives shy away from the sensible ideas of the Bowles-Simpson commission on deficit reduction because those ideas are too deeply rooted in, well, reality.
  4. spearhead
    the head and sharpened point of a spear
    Their effects were large-scale and important: think of the reform of the tax code in the 1980s, for example, which was spearheaded by conservatives.
  5. formulation
    the act of inventing or contriving an idea or explanation
    His formulation might have been a touch arrogant, but Will's basic point was intelligent.
  6. catalyst
    substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction
    From Singapore to South Korea to Germany to Canada, evidence abounds that some strategic actions by the government can act as catalysts for free-market growth.
  7. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
    In fact, right now any discussion of government involvement in the economy — even to build vital infrastructure — is impossible because it is a cardinal tenet of the new conservatism that such involvement is always and forever bad.
  8. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
    Conservatives now espouse ideas drawn from abstract principles with little regard to the realities of America's present or past.
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