Posted on 07/05/2011 5:09:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Republicans have changed American politics since they took control of the House of Representatives. They have put spending restraint and debt reduction at the top of the national agenda. They have sparked a discussion on entitlement reform. They have turned a bill to raise the debt limit into an opportunity to put the U.S. on a stable fiscal course.
Republican leaders have also proved to be effective negotiators. They have been tough and inflexible and forced the Democrats to come to them. The Democrats have agreed to tie budget cuts to the debt ceiling bill. They have agreed not to raise tax rates. They have agreed to a roughly 3-to-1 rate of spending cuts to revenue increases, an astonishing concession.
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Works for me. ;-)
Phew—that’s a relief (/snix).
:-)
“OLTG volunteers! Please pick me!!! Over here! Yoohoo!!!!! Hello! “
Please, I’m talking about our ELITE bosses at the top of the Republican Party.
Brooks misunderstands. His "practical, governing alternative" has been proven to be anything but a "practical, governing alternative." Indeed, it is this "practical, governing alternative" that is purely responsible for the fiscal mess we are in.
If the cycle of tax and spend is not broken, if Brooks' "practical, governing alternative" is not defeated, we will have no future.
Brooks' World of Washington does not understand, nor care, what the voters want and are intent upon getting.
No, it is not taxes that Brooks and his ilk worship.
It is government. The bigger, the better. And taxes are its lifeblood.
Is that really what Chambers would have said?
It looks to me like Chambers hated communism (after he left it behind) and thought it evil but feared that communism would win anyway because the world is an evil place.
Like a lot of anti-Communists of his generation Whittaker Chambers tolerated a role for government that libertarian purists would condemn.
That wasn't because he loved communism. It was because he thought laissez-faire would encourage Communist movements.
He might have been wrong (was he really, though?), but Chambers certainly did not believe communism was morally superior to Christianity.
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