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Where Have You Gone, Bill Buckley?
The New York Times ^ | 12/3/12 | David Welch

Posted on 12/04/2012 4:02:01 AM PST by publius1

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To: blam

AND selected the first 100+ employees


21 posted on 12/04/2012 9:52:23 AM PST by capt B
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To: publius1
The modern-day Birchers are the Tea Party. By loudly espousing extreme rhetoric, yet holding untenable beliefs . . .

The "extreme rhetoric" from the Tea Party is the claim that we are Taxed Enough Already - and decent people consider that an obvious fact, not an extreme position. The "untenable belief" is that federal spending can be cut, but I hope that position will be found tenable before the American economy collapses under the weight of federal debt.

22 posted on 12/04/2012 10:37:53 AM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: publius1; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

William F. runs his Firing Line show up in Heaven with Elvis, Buddy Holly and Patrice Lumumba!


23 posted on 12/04/2012 10:41:02 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Isn’t it a little ironic that David Welch shares his last name with Robert Welch...the founder of the John Birch Society?

As well as with Bruce... Welch of the Shadows, and GASP! with Bob... Welch of Fleetwood Mac.

24 posted on 12/04/2012 10:43:41 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Dunno. He was goin’ a bit wobbly there at the end.


25 posted on 12/04/2012 10:55:14 AM PST by Little Ray (Get back to work. Your urban masters need their EBTs refilled.)
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A Communist rag advocating for a Socialist Republican Party that gracefully loses to the Democrats. The author is what we call a “concern troll.”


26 posted on 12/04/2012 12:53:40 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Isn’t it a little ironic that David Welch shares his last name with Robert Welch...the founder of the John Birch Society?

Savor the irony. I wonder if David Welch is aware of it.

The Birch Society was a controlled and organized group. The Tea Party's a lot more amorphous and free-form. Maybe that unruliness is precisely what Welch objects to. But making it into something close to the exact opposite is bizarre, not to say unfair.

David Welch is part of the "GOP elite," but that's not really saying much nowadays. He's just a guy who worked on campaigns till he got a (presumably highly paid) consultant's job. Not exactly a Rockefeller.

27 posted on 12/04/2012 1:24:03 PM PST by x
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