That left a mark.
Posted on 04/27/2005 9:51:14 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Sen. Charles Schumer announced recently that he is worried about the "hard, hard right" of the Republican Party, people whose goal is to turn "the clock back to the 1930s or the 1890s." I've never met one myself.
There is no such Republican in the president's Cabinet, none in the Senate, and Schumer, a New York Democrat, is talking nonsense. He wants to conceal the Big Switch that has transformed American politics.
Today the Democrats are the party of reactionary liberalism.
Republicans are the true progressives.
Yet, if Schumer is mostly wrong, he is also unintentionally revealing. He seems to believe that "hard-right" Republicans pine for the 1930s - when statesmen like FDR and his disciples dominated the scene. He's right: Many Republicans do admire FDR. Republicans, after all, are his spiritual heirs.
This is serious business. If you agree that President George W. Bush has no automatic right to call himself Lincoln's successor just because they are both "Republicans," then Democrats have no automatic right to FDR's mantle, either. The Democrats and Republicans switched roles while no one was looking.
Schumer is a main man for the Democrats, architect of a fine new way of holding a knife to the Senate's throat. Democrats threaten to filibuster Bush judicial nominees; one touch of Schumer's magic wand and they can no longer be confirmed by majorities, only landslides.
How many Democratic senators won by landslides? If Republicans change the rules to disallow such vindictiveness, Democrats promise to throw a fit and bring Senate business to a halt.
The filibuster scheme perfectly epitomizes modern Democrats. Republicans want to move forward, confirm some judges. The Democrats' response: Freeze! Or we talk you to death. Democrats are the Stand Still party. They adore the status quo.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Let me put this simply - Democrats are LOSERS.
America is being led by lots of losers in Washington.
Gelertner is good.
Interesting. I will bookmark to read later . . .
Republicans are not that far behind right now with their recent antics.
Sad but true.
How did this piece get by the editors at the Slimes?
That left a mark.
bump
"Many Republicans do admire FDR. Republicans, after all, are his spiritual heirs."
That about sums up the problem. Where is one to turn if he opposes "New Deal" style big government liberalism? The GOP only looks good in comparison to the Dems. With third party politics pretty much a dead end, that does not leave much to cheer about for us limited government conservatives.
"Most of America can see the products of their social engineering, and they don't like it."
The qustion is whether America rejects social engineering in principle, or just "THEIR" social engineering. (As opposed to "OUR" social engineering. For those of us who reject social engineering in principle, it is too soon to cheer.
BS, If the fence sitting Reps start to waiver, then start squeezing the funding to their area for the projects they have going. Play DIRTY like the Dems do!! Ram the US Constitution down their throats. Start repealing their pet projects!!!
I've always thought Republicans/Conservatives were the progressive ones. We just think issues through more slowly and carefully, are more mindful of what has been proven to be historically beneficial and true when we look toward the future.
"The qustion is whether America rejects social engineering in principle, or just "THEIR" social engineering. (As opposed to "OUR" social engineering. For those of us who reject social engineering in principle, it is too soon to cheer."
I think we are in agreement. Social Engineering assumes that someone else knows what is best for you. That usually means some nameless, faceless bureaucrat in a .gov capacity. It does not really matter whose social engineering you are subjected too. It does not work.
Oh, they throw us a bone once in awhile since readership is in the crapper.
"Social Engineering assumes that someone else knows what is best for you. That usually means some nameless, faceless bureaucrat in a .gov capacity. It does not really matter whose social engineering you are subjected too. It does not work."
You are right, now if we could just convince some of our so-called "conservative" leaders that replacing Democratic social engineering with Republican social engineering, is ultimately a dead end, we might get somewhere. Many GOP leaders, including the President, seem to be wedded to a milder and less obvious form of social engineering. The Democrats have moved so far to the left, that the GOP leadership is made to look conservative by comparison. The result being that political center is moved leftward. Here in Vermont the Progressives have succeededly wildly over the years at redefining right and left by moving the whole political debate to the left. I see this starting to play out on a national level as the Dems move so far to the left that the Repubs can move leftward and still come off as conservatives.
"*Good Find* ! This was published by the La La Land Times? Frankly, I'm shocked, just shocked I tell you.
"
It was probably placed before the advertisements for GM cars and after Garfield.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.