Right, James. The enemy of my enemy and all that. Newt's another one of those crypto-libertarians, like Scott McNealy, good when you agree with him. I have to credit you for posting the whole story, though, not the Regimondish selective quote.
''The Justice Department could do a variety of things,'' Gingrich said in a speech. ''They could be looking more effectively into bringing drugs into the country illegally; they could be looking more effectively at illegal foreign campaign contributions.
Very libertarian views, those. Although if he thinks DoJ should be more effective about bringing drugs in illegally, maybe he really is a libertarian. I think he's confused on jurisdiction there, that's the CIA's domain. You think your Bill's capitalism.org lobbying arm, co-hosted by that guy in the Bahamas, would come under Newt's approval of what DoJ should look into?
Newt's got the Bills' penchant for honesty on these matters too. He's been doing such a good job for so long keeping campaign finance reform bottled up in the house while mouthing the usual platitudes, at least when he's not saying the problem could be solved with more money, not less. Normally, I'd worry about Newt trying to zero out the antitrust division, but probationary ilkest Orrin Hatch is riding shotgun on that on.
Speaking of the Bahamas, there was a piece in the NYT magazine couple weeks ago about one "Lazarus Long", building a Libertarian Utopia on some shoal around the Grand Caymans. Monuments to "Ayn and Hein" included, though I'm a bit confused on how Heinlein's militaristic leanings fit in with Libertarianism. Sounds like just the place for your Bill to pull up stakes and move to, that is if the Microserfs felt like following their fearless leader to live on what sounded like a glorified offshore oil rig. Sorry, no URL, the Times doesn't put their Magazine on line.
Cheers, Dan.
P.S. Thanks for the ad hominem, but of course I got Dowd to pick a fight with here. I can't seem to convince him that your Bill's views on what makes a communist have any merit. Since your Bill seems to be a communist now by his own definition, maybe I should take being called a commie as a compliment. |
