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Alan Simpson? Another friggin RINO that should have caucused with the democrats.
Ah, the typical right wing response. If a moderate conservative doesn't parrot the right wing propaganda Norquist and Frank Luntz script for Republicans, they are RINO's, or in the case of former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett and former GW Bush speechwriter David Frum, they are FIRED by right wing think tanks that don't ALLOW any opinion not blessed by your handlers.
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind
by Bruce Bartlett
As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since, I have lost a great many friends and been shunned by conservative society in Washington, DC.
Now the same thing has happened to David Frum, who has been fired by the American Enterprise Institute. I don't know all the details, but I presume that his Waterloo post on Sunday condemning Republicans for failing to work with Democrats on healthcare reform was the final straw.
Since, he is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI "scholars" on the subject of health care reform. I said no and he said that was because they had been ordered not to speak to the media because they agreed with too much of what Obama was trying to do.
It saddened me to hear this. I have always hoped that my experience was unique. But now I see that I was just the first to suffer from a closing of the conservative mind. Rigid conformity is being enforced, no dissent is allowed, and the conservative brain will slowly shrivel into dementia if it hasn't already.
Sadly, there is no place for David and me to go. The donor community is only interested in financing organizations that parrot the party line, such as the one recently established by McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin.
I will have more to say on this topic later. But I wanted to say that this is a black day for what passes for a conservative movement, scholarship, and the once-respected AEI.
Hey dumbshit, show me the democrats willingness to compromise. They rammed legislation throught that people didnt want with every procedure known to man. And I still have never seen a republican leave a state to avoid a vote.........Democrats hate democracy, especially when they lose
I doubt it, it's from a L.A. newspaper.
Look for the actual source.
Go to the actual Louisiana court website and look up their documents, mentioned in the newspaper.
Ah, the typical right wing response. If a moderate conservative doesn't parrot the right wing propaganda Norquist and Frank Luntz script for Republicans, they are RINO's, or in the case of former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett and former GW Bush speechwriter David Frum, they are FIRED by right wing think tanks that don't ALLOW any opinion not blessed by your handlers.
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind
by Bruce Bartlett
As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since, I have lost a great many friends and been shunned by conservative society in Washington, DC.
Now the same thing has happened to David Frum, who has been fired by the American Enterprise Institute. I don't know all the details, but I presume that his Waterloo post on Sunday condemning Republicans for failing to work with Democrats on healthcare reform was the final straw.
Since, he is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI "scholars" on the subject of health care reform. I said no and he said that was because they had been ordered not to speak to the media because they agreed with too much of what Obama was trying to do.
It saddened me to hear this. I have always hoped that my experience was unique. But now I see that I was just the first to suffer from a closing of the conservative mind. Rigid conformity is being enforced, no dissent is allowed, and the conservative brain will slowly shrivel into dementia if it hasn't already.
Sadly, there is no place for David and me to go. The donor community is only interested in financing organizations that parrot the party line, such as the one recently established by McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin.
I will have more to say on this topic later. But I wanted to say that this is a black day for what passes for a conservative movement, scholarship, and the once-respected AEI.
Hey dumbshit, show me the democrats willingness to compromise. They rammed legislation throught that people didnt want with every procedure known to man. And I still have never seen a republican leave a state to avoid a vote.........Democrats hate democracy, especially when they lose
When Joe Lieberman supported McCain, and spoke at the GOP convention, he still was allowed to caucus with Democrats.
President Obama and Democrats were more than willing to compromise with Republicans on health care, but Republicans made a collective decision. WHY do you think David Frum was fired by the American Enterprise Institute? Because he told the TRUTH.
Waterloo
"At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obamas Waterloo just as healthcare was Clintons in 1994.
Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romneys Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994."
"Eighty percent of Republicans are just Democrats that don't know what's going on"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Oh neat , rinata took her monkey paws off the triple cheeseburger just long enough to start another whacked out thread........
Alan Simpson? Another friggin RINO that should have caucused with the democrats.
Ah, the typical right wing response. If a moderate conservative doesn't parrot the right wing propaganda Norquist and Frank Luntz script for Republicans, they are RINO's, or in the case of former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett and former GW Bush speechwriter David Frum, they are FIRED by right wing think tanks that don't ALLOW any opinion not blessed by your handlers.
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind
by Bruce Bartlett
As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since, I have lost a great many friends and been shunned by conservative society in Washington, DC.
Now the same thing has happened to David Frum, who has been fired by the American Enterprise Institute. I don't know all the details, but I presume that his Waterloo post on Sunday condemning Republicans for failing to work with Democrats on healthcare reform was the final straw.
Since, he is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI "scholars" on the subject of health care reform. I said no and he said that was because they had been ordered not to speak to the media because they agreed with too much of what Obama was trying to do.
It saddened me to hear this. I have always hoped that my experience was unique. But now I see that I was just the first to suffer from a closing of the conservative mind. Rigid conformity is being enforced, no dissent is allowed, and the conservative brain will slowly shrivel into dementia if it hasn't already.
Sadly, there is no place for David and me to go. The donor community is only interested in financing organizations that parrot the party line, such as the one recently established by McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin.
I will have more to say on this topic later. But I wanted to say that this is a black day for what passes for a conservative movement, scholarship, and the once-respected AEI.
Thats why they're traitors
The biggest war happened a long time ago.
Big business approached Reagan and said they were sick of American labor costs. They wanted ultra-cheap labor from dictator-run, freedom hating nations where workers are so oppressed that they make pennies a day and live in sewage.
Reagan accelerated the movement of capital to the world's cheapest labor markets.
He was supposedly fighting communism, but ...
Where do you think the GOP's largest retail contributor - Walmart - gets 100% of its manufacturing?Answer: freedom-hating Communist China.
The GOP uses patriotism, religion, tradition, and family values to get less educated voters to support their policies, which largely benefit a collection of special interests that orbits around concentrated capital. But if you look between the lines... those same collection of interests has been shipping jobs to freedom-hating nations for decades.
Study Neoliberalism if you want to understand the GOP. They hate America. Capital has no allegiance to borders, language, Culture. It has decimated the US Labor market.
The biggest war happened a long time ago.
Big business approached Reagan and said they were sick of American labor costs. They wanted ultra-cheap labor from dictator-run, freedom hating nations where workers are so oppressed that they make pennies a day and live in sewage.
Reagan accelerated the movement of capital to the world's cheapest labor markets.
He was supposedly fighting communism, but ...
Where do you think the GOP's largest retail contributor - Walmart - gets 100% of its manufacturing?Answer: freedom-hating Communist China.
The GOP uses patriotism, religion, tradition, and family values to get less educated voters to support their policies, which largely benefit a collection of special interests that orbits around concentrated capital. But if you look between the lines... those same collection of interests has been shipping jobs to freedom-hating nations for decades.
Study Neoliberalism if you want to understand the GOP. They hate America. Capital has no allegiance to borders, language, Culture. It has decimated the US Labor market.
Why do you morons insist on lying about walmart? It's quite easily disproved by simply visiting one of their stores.....
The closest twin we have in America today to the communists and Marxists in Russia are the 'Marketists'; conservatives, libertarians and 'free marketeers' who have turned government nonintervention and 'laissez faire' into a religion. It has created 'malaise faire'
Blind Faith
For a country that has prided itself on its resourcefulness, the inability to address our problems suggests something deeper at work. There is something, powerful but insidious, that blinds us to the causes of these problems and undermines our ability to respond. That something is a set of beliefs, comparable to religious beliefs in earlier ages, about the nature of economies and societies. These beliefs imply the impropriety of government intervention either in social contexts (libertarianism) or in economic affairs (laissez faire).
The faithful unquestioningly embrace the credo that the doctrine of nonintervention has generated our most venerated institutions: our democracy, the best possible political system; and our free market economy, the best possible economic system. But despite our devotion to the dogmas that libertarianism and free market economics are the foundation of all that we cherish most deeply, they have failed us and are responsible for our present malaise.
The pieties of libertarianism and free markets sound pretty, but they cannot withstand even a cursory inspection. Libertarianism does not support democracy; taken to an extreme, it entails the law of the jungle. If government never interferes, we could all get away with murder. Alternatively, if the libertarian position is not to be taken to an extreme, where should it stop? What is the difference between no government and minimal government? Attempts to justify libertarianism, even a less than extreme position, have failed. Laissez faire, or free market economics, characterized by minimal or no government intervention, has a history that is long but undistinguished. Just as the negative effects of a high fever do not certify the health benefits of the opposite extreme, hypothermia, the dismal failure of communism, seeking complete government control of the economy, does not certify the economic benefits of the opposite extreme, total economic non-intervention.
It may seem odd, given the parabolic arc of our financial markets and the swelling chorus of paeans to free market economics, but despite the important role of the market, purer free market economies have consistently underperformed well-focused mixed economies. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the mixed economies of Meiji Japan and Bismarcks Germany clearly outperformed the free market economies of Britain and France. Our own economy grew faster when we abandoned the laissez faire of the 1920s and early 1930s for the proto-socialist policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It has become increasingly sluggish as we have moved back to a purer free market. Data of the past few decades show that our GNP and productivity growth have lagged those of our trading partners, who have mixed economies characterized by moderate government intervention.
The persistently mediocre track record of laissez faire casts doubt on the claim that an economy free from government interference invariably maximizes the wealth of society. In fact, there are sound reasons the pure free market must underperform well-focused mixed economies.
But despite laissez faires mediocre track record and despite powerful arguments that it cannot possibly provide what it promises, the notion of the unqualified benefit of the free market has become deeply embedded in our mythology. Apologists have exulted in claims that glorify free market mythology at the expense of reality, and also at the expense of society. Free market principles, even though they have failed in economics, have been eagerly applied to sectors ranging from politics to education, where they have contributed to societal dysfunction.
One politically popular myth, that free market economics and government non-intervention provide the basis for true democracy, flies in the face of history.
As we moved toward an ideology driven 'free market' ONLY belief economically, and away from a mixed economy, the results have been disastrous.
Over the past half-century we have seen lower tax rates and less government interference. We have come a long way toward free enterprise from the proto-socialist policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since the Kennedy Administration we have reduced the marginal tax rate on our highest incomes from the 91% that remained in effect from the 1940s into the mid-1960s (and a brief peak of 94% during World War II) to 28% in the 1986 tax code. Yet our economic growth has slowed.
Decade/Average Real GNP/per Capita GNP Growth
1960-1969 4.18% 2.79%
1970-1979 3.18% 2.09%
1980-1989 2.75% 1.81%
1990-1994 1.95% 0.79%
(Maddison, Monitoring the World Economy 1820-1992 p. .183, 197)
Despite our adoption of the most enlightened free market policies, our performance resembles that of a declining Great Britain in the late nineteenth century.
Free market apologists contend the closer we come to pure laissez faire, the better. But there is little evidence for even this position. The U.S. has come closer to laissez faire than most other countries, especially since the Reagan Administration. If free market policies are the best economic policies then we should have experienced the most robust growth in the world during this period. But this has not happened. We have been outstripped by our trading partners.
Myths Of The Free Market
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
President John F. Kennedy
Not only that, the vast majority of retail stores are non-union. Same as Walmart.The biggest war happened a long time ago.
Big business approached Reagan and said they were sick of American labor costs. They wanted ultra-cheap labor from dictator-run, freedom hating nations where workers are so oppressed that they make pennies a day and live in sewage.
Reagan accelerated the movement of capital to the world's cheapest labor markets.
He was supposedly fighting communism, but ...
Where do you think the GOP's largest retail contributor - Walmart - gets 100% of its manufacturing?Answer: freedom-hating Communist China.
The GOP uses patriotism, religion, tradition, and family values to get less educated voters to support their policies, which largely benefit a collection of special interests that orbits around concentrated capital. But if you look between the lines... those same collection of interests has been shipping jobs to freedom-hating nations for decades.
Study Neoliberalism if you want to understand the GOP. They hate America. Capital has no allegiance to borders, language, Culture. It has decimated the US Labor market.
Why do you morons insist on lying about walmart? It's quite easily disproved by simply visiting one of their stores.....
Every idiot that starts screaming about Walmart, I've always shut them up with one question:
"Name the Department Store in America that does NOT carry Chinese goods?"
That shuts them up in an instant, because there IS no Department store, mall, ect. that does NOT carry Chinese goods.
Some people are so stupid, I swear. They will start screaming about something like Walmart and it NEVER occurs to them, they are just letting their emotions get whipped up for a political agenda and they haven't one freaking idea that a country with open trade is going to have A LOT of stores with Chinese goods in them.
Try buying a toy, anymore that is NOT made in China. Good luck on that one!
All that crap Londoner spewed is a bunch of conspiracy theory crap, mixed in with the usual marxist stuff the Unions spew about Walmart, because Walmart isn't UNION, which is their real objection to Walmart.
why do right wing people fight the facts as if they dont exist?
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Grover Norquist
Read more at Grover Norquist Quotes - BrainyQuote
this isnt a football game you dweebs
Do you want the Post office and public schools dead?
what is the right wing plan?
you people always spew hate on public education and the post office.
the founders LOVED these ideas yet you trash them all the time.
They are teaching social issues like it's ok to have two mommies and daddies,instead for math, science, reading and U.S. history.fucking lie
The Constitution says what the Feds are suppose to be doing.then why are you fighting the constitution?
They are not suppose to be running the public schools.where is that in the constitution?
Ever since they did that, our education system has gone down in the world.so you liked it when black people couldnt go to school and they taught people the world was 6000 years old?
Guess who changed that? A Repub by the name of Nixon,who was a Repub progressive.
get some facts for a change
so blatantly lying doesnt botther you as long as you presume it benefits you politically. it hits a nerve thus boosts your ego for some perverse reason
Ah, the typical right wing response. If a moderate conservative doesn't parrot the right wing propaganda Norquist and Frank Luntz script for Republicans, they are RINO's, or in the case of former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett and former GW Bush speechwriter David Frum, they are FIRED by right wing think tanks that don't ALLOW any opinion not blessed by your handlers.
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind
by Bruce Bartlett
As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since, I have lost a great many friends and been shunned by conservative society in Washington, DC.
Now the same thing has happened to David Frum, who has been fired by the American Enterprise Institute. I don't know all the details, but I presume that his Waterloo post on Sunday condemning Republicans for failing to work with Democrats on healthcare reform was the final straw.
Since, he is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI "scholars" on the subject of health care reform. I said no and he said that was because they had been ordered not to speak to the media because they agreed with too much of what Obama was trying to do.
It saddened me to hear this. I have always hoped that my experience was unique. But now I see that I was just the first to suffer from a closing of the conservative mind. Rigid conformity is being enforced, no dissent is allowed, and the conservative brain will slowly shrivel into dementia if it hasn't already.
Sadly, there is no place for David and me to go. The donor community is only interested in financing organizations that parrot the party line, such as the one recently established by McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin.
I will have more to say on this topic later. But I wanted to say that this is a black day for what passes for a conservative movement, scholarship, and the once-respected AEI.
Hey dumbshit, show me the democrats willingness to compromise. They rammed legislation throught that people didnt want with every procedure known to man. And I still have never seen a republican leave a state to avoid a vote.........Democrats hate democracy, especially when they lose
BINGO! That's how "compromise" works in the liberal world. They never compromise their lack of values. NO, conservatives have to compromise their values.
And once Obama loses and we get the Senate as well (Lord willing) they will go back to WHINING as they did in 2002 that Republicans have to "respect the voice of the minority."
Notice Dems don't worry about that when THEY are the majority party?
Liberalism is hypocrisy in itself.
Not only that, the vast majority of retail stores are non-union. Same as Walmart.Why do you morons insist on lying about walmart? It's quite easily disproved by simply visiting one of their stores.....
Every idiot that starts screaming about Walmart, I've always shut them up with one question:
"Name the Department Store in America that does NOT carry Chinese goods?"
That shuts them up in an instant, because there IS no Department store, mall, ect. that does NOT carry Chinese goods.
Some people are so stupid, I swear. They will start screaming about something like Walmart and it NEVER occurs to them, they are just letting their emotions get whipped up for a political agenda and they haven't one freaking idea that a country with open trade is going to have A LOT of stores with Chinese goods in them.
Try buying a toy, anymore that is NOT made in China. Good luck on that one!
All that crap Londoner spewed is a bunch of conspiracy theory crap, mixed in with the usual marxist stuff the Unions spew about Walmart, because Walmart isn't UNION, which is their real objection to Walmart.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Grover Norquist
Read more at Grover Norquist Quotes - BrainyQuote
needs to be cut in half alot faster than that.
