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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (146121)	10/3/2010 1:57:47 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 540821

If Benen is going to criticize Friedman we should at least look at what Freidman said I would think. Note bolding; I agree with the thought of posting Friedman's stuff (we're both misspelling his name--I've been using the "ee" and you've been using the "ei" sometimes). And the list of problems/solutions is not bad (I would have a different one but the point is made). However, what he didn't do, and this is Benen's chief point, is identify a movement source. We simply don't have that at the moment. The tea party is not that. All Friedman's problems point to government solutions--more government, not less; yet the tp types are simply angry at government. And there's no "radical center" that can be identified as a movement, at least not right now. The closest to that is the political space Obama occupies, and the small fragments of Rep "moderates." And the very act of identifying that space, reveals just how ephemeral it is. It already exists within the Dem party. Just have the "no" party with barely enough leverage to stop the government from acting. But with the prospects for more leverage in the next edition of congress.

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