September 25, 2002
CASEY JONES, YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR SPEED:
Radical Conservatism (David S. Broder, September 25, 2002, The Washington Post)Consider economics. The centerpiece of Bush's policy is his belief in the efficacy of tax cuts under any and all circumstances.[...]Consider education. [...] Bush has pushed through the largest expansion of the federal role in education of any president since Lyndon Johnson, not just in dollars but in standards of performance and measures of achievement, backed by real sanctions.
Consider social programs. Bush has backed a continuing effort to shift the line on church-state relations, bringing civil and religious authority much closer together. [...]
Consider retirement security. In the face of cautions from members of his own party and strong criticism from the Democrats, Bush has kept on his agenda the proposal to change the Social Security program... [...]
And now Bush has put before the world, first in his West Point speech and last week in a formal state paper, a fundamental revision of American foreign and national security policy. [...]
[H]e asserts the right of the United States, as the only superpower, to judge the degree of potential danger itself -- and to take whatever action it deems necessary to eliminate that threat.
You may think any one of these changes is wise or foolish. What is remarkable is that all of them have come in so short a time from the hand of a man whose campaign seemed so bland and whose election was so narrow. Bush is redefining what it means to be a conservative.
If you can lift your eyes from watching the train wreck that Maureen Dowd has made of her reputation in recent months, you might want to check out the runaway David Broder on track two. In a sense, both seem to be suffering from the same odd failure, they've become completely deranged as a result of George W. Bush's success. Ms Dowd, who's always been partisan has ceased to be insightful or funny, while Mr. Broder has abandoned what had previously been a pretense of objectivity, which would be sad enough, but he's also lost the ability to perform dispassionate analysis, which is a catastrophe.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 25, 2002 12:15 PM
I'm with Marc, except that the way I would put it is:
The left, especially the political wing, never
mean what they say. The promise of the left is rarely, if ever realized as a solution to what ever situation they propose to solve.
It therefore follows, in their minds, that everyone else
is functioning in exactly the same fraudlent fashion as they do.
Double Damn!!
www.janegalt.net/2002_09_22_janegalt_archive.html#85485755
Ha!
The double post was created by YACCS problems. The link problem is because I made two mistakes and only fixed one of them.
has a post that addresses a different situation which is excaberated by the same set of attitudes that I see represented in the approach of the left.
Perhaps the greatest thing about the internet -- and blogs in particular -- is that it has had the effect of bursting gasbags such as Broder and Dowd. No one takes them seriously anymore. They are just blind Bush haters.
Posted by: Melissa at September 25, 2002 5:30 PMUncle Bill really has it right. The Left preaches equality
. What they really mean is that all slaves are equally slaves, with a little lip service that all slaves will receive the same amount of beatings.
Of course they, as the masters, will determine the timing and severity of the beatings.
Pathetic.