Gail Collins' summary of the difficult choice facing the American people:
So, we’re almost done, convention-wise. We’ve learned that both parties like God and moms, particularly moms with humble roots. They both have faith that people who work hard and play by the rules can overcome exposure to secondhand furniture while they’re in college. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of whether you want to raise taxes and balance the budget like Clinton, or cut taxes and plunge us into a hopeless sea of debt, like Bush. Let the fight begin.
nytimes.com
Steve Schmidt: "I wish to God as a Republican that we had someone who could do that."
lol, you wish to whom, Steve? IMHO, the reason they don't have someone who can do that is that they have put themselves into a position where they have to constantly dissemble about what they really want to do. And you can't wax eloquent about things that are so transparently nuts as Ryan's Plan, which is the plan at the heart of the current GOP. In a sentence, they want to cut taxes in order to Starve the Beast in order to fit the government in a bath tub. The Norquistian Dream, which, if implemented, would turn into a nightmare for a fair sized majority of the country. No one can be eloquent about that. It is a mean, stupid self-destructive goal. You can be eloquent about it only if you are exposing and dismissing it, as Bruce Bartlett does in this article:
independent.org
And here is more Bartlett commentary on it, much shorter than the previous piece, but very appropriately titled, "The Idiocy of Starve-the-Beast Theory":
wallstreetpit.com
The first piece is the most scholarly article I have seen on the Starve the Beast strategy. |
