[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.

Genuine conservatives would understand that reducing taxes (and regulation), thus making America a business-friendly environment where more businesses want to do business, is what will reduce the debt.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.

Genuine conservatives would understand that reducing taxes (and regulation), thus making America a business-friendly environment where more businesses want to do business, is what will reduce the debt.

[mnehring]

...and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt....

This alone tells me the article is BullFeces. Raising taxes during a downturn is like taking seeds away from the farmer to eat when he most needs to plant them to generate more product.

[dynachrome]

Welcome to FR. Maybe

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“they would not have made a political game of uniform obstructionism; they would not have toyed with, of all things, unemployment benefits; and they most decidedly would not be advocating trillions in extended tax cuts while in the grips of such looming debt.”

[mnehring]

Interesting screen name; would that make you a member of the “fourth estate, fifth column dis-informers”?

[jellybean]

Did you write this drek? If so, could you please expand on this point:

they would not have toyed with, of all things, unemployment benefits

Do you mean they shouldn't have insisted that the "benefits" be paid for before they agreed to the extension?

Also, if you wrote this and it's your blog, why do you excerpt?

[Nateman]

I just love it when a pretend conservative tries to tell me what I should think.

[APatientMan]

You seem to mistake common sense for “uniform obstructionism”.

At what point do you think King Barack should be responsible for the economy that he controls?
It’s an answer no lefty has been able to answer - perhaps the reason that Independents are abandoning the progressive ship?

It’s the reason that progressives have had to draw attention away from the economy instead of to it. Maybe you should employ the same tactic - if you care to survive through November.

[mnehring]

Reading through your blogs, I find the most honest statement you make is: I'm no economist... Which is true. Economists generally deal in hard numbers and analysis. Pure economics isn't swayed by emotions or polls (albeit, too many so called economists play that game). Your profile states you have a PHD in political science, which by definition, is the polar opposite of tangible study. It reduces the study of what runs a country down to Jungian and analysis of how neural linguistics can influence the voters- not on what is right or wrong; correct or incorrect. This is the mantra of the left or the jelly filled DC establishment Right, not on Conservative values.

[darkwing104]

They've become the party of the Limbaugh putdown, the Beck sneer, the Palin sarcasm -- and within that faux populist mix there's not a dram of fresh or serious thinking; and it is that insufficiency which has re-earned them the 1950's Hofstadterian epithet of "pseudoconservatives."

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[2ndDivisionVet]

IBTZ

[50mm]

How'd that Buzzflash gig work out for you, filthcolumnist?

[paulycy]

"for genuine conservatives are of course genuinely wary of too much change, too fast"

Oh, you'd be surprised to see how fast things can change around here.

IBTZ.

[Viking2002]

Don't let the door hit ya, etc., etc., etc.. IBTZ.

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[Las Vegas Ron]

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[InABunkerUnderSF]

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[Las Vegas Ron]

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[Chode]

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[50mm]

Don't have much use for the Tea Party, do you, filthcommunist?

Join a Congressional Tea Party Caucus? Why sure, said Indiana's Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference. "You betcha," he said, as would any utterly unprincipled demagogue, which is precisely what Pence is. But most others? Thanks, but no thanks, they say (when, that is, they can be cornered for a comment). They know a political time bomb -- or for that matter, a humiliating dud -- when they see one. Whomever the tea partyers don't co-opt within conservative circles, they drive away.

Source: PMS Carpenter @ Buzzflash

[Farmer Dean]

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