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I thought Republicans were the party of smaller—not thinner—government…

…And evidently, so does Jay Nordlinger, who in his latest “Impromptus” column questions Dubya’s recurring fitness trope:

So, President Bush is leading a war on fitness, or a war for fitness, or against unfitness, or whatever we should call it. Great. Most people will hail him for doing this, or at least not object. But is this really what the chief executive of a liberal republic should be doing? Should the American president really be hectoring the people about being plump or too couch-friendly, no matter what the merits of the argument?

Here, of course, I