Lando 
Lando
It helps when you actually have an argument supported by more than emotional whining. Liberals don't. Unfortunately, 50% of the country buys into emotional whining. I'll let the reader decide which 50%
Do you want to know how to make a small fortune? Start with a large one and vote democrat.
Its the liberal way... throw money at a "problem"... However much of the funding is from the federal gov't..
What are they talking about? Conservative infrastructure?
Geez, I could've sworn the Conservatives were the ones without the infrastructure.
This is absurd. I can't believe that 80 millionaires could be so stupid. What in the hell are the liberals going to do once they rent the building?
Excellent!
This is the only part of the column that falls down. "Alternative television networks and newspapers"?? Certainly 24-hour cable TV news (Fox News, Cspan) has been critical, but Rush Limbaugh (talk radio) and the internet MUST be mentioned here.
The liberal program writ large since the sixties has been a disaster. But liberals don't think that. They think they've had huge successes culminating with the Clinton years who of course enacted a number of successful laws that were originated by conservatives (welfare reform, tax reform) ...because The Great Fornicator knew that liberalism is bunk but couldn't admit it for obvious reasons. They think the only reason their programs aren't more successful is because stingy conservatives cut the money supply or killed their "successful" programs. Even after liberal program after liberal program was proven to be a disaster, they still believe in liberalism. Results don't matter to libs, only intentions.
Think tank? I'd call it a sewage treatment facility.
The left wasting/misspending money....shocking, eh??!!
Although the article doesn't directly say so, it is clear to me that Rob Stein is setting himself so that he and his circle of friends and relatives can assume high paying "management" positions in his newly created think tank, once they have assembled $80 million or so of the suckers, oops - I mean backers money.
A think tank is the perfect vehicle for a gravy train project because you can use the money to sub contract out to consultants the real work of preparing "studies" on various topics while Rob and friends float around to conventions and talk shows passing off the position papers as their own ideas and to maximize their face time on TV.
If this sounds far fetched, just look at what the Gloria Wise charity group was paying to that clutch of managers who defrauded it for Air America's advantage. They were pulling down salaries of between $150,000 and $250,000 of the taxpayers money for doing SFA and had been getting away with it for years and years.
An alternate spelling for think tank is, "gravy train".
If anyone wants a current example of what unopposed liberalism can do for a city, one only needs to look at Detroit. Liberalism does not work, and the examples abound for those not so emotionally attached to the ideas of liberalism that they have blinded themselves.
Besides, why do they want to put up even more think tanks? I thought the liberals already had a near monopoly on information dissemination. The minority of conservative voices out there must be quite effective, or these rich liberals wouldn't be trying to drown them out by increasing the volume of liberal same old, same old.