Hey! Check out my predictions made in a comment to a post by Devin in June of 2009:
"The pace and breadth and radicalism of Pres. Obama's blitzkrieg on capitalism will ruin the democratic party for years to come. I doubt the republicans will position themselves to take advantage. The independents will grow. We may be seeing the beginnings of pluralism in government. Ruling by coalition seems to be the only way moderation can take hold." Jeff says I was half right. Instead of the creation of a third party, the tea party folks threw in their lot with republicans. So instead of getting a coalition government, we wind up with whiplash in congress.
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-D. James Cannon
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- I have granted every contributor admin privileges so that you can add your favorite political books yourself. Just follow the same format and be sure to keep this comment first in the list. Thanks!
- "The Constitution of Liberty" by F.A. Hayek (Jeff)
- "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith (Devin)
- "1776" by David McCullough (Devin)
- "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek (Jeff)
- "A Matter of Interpretation" by Antonin Scalia (Devin)
- "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (Rich)
- "1984" by George Orwell (Devin)
- "The Birth of Plenty" by William J. Bernstein (Devin)
- Very quick read: "The Curses of Entitlement: 30 Frightening Consequences of Government Payments" by Roger Fritz (Rich)
- "The Tempting of America" by Robert H. Bork (Devin)
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3 comments:
I think that the tea partiers, by choosing to throw their weight behind the GOP, chose between the lesser of two evils: (1) do tea partiers hate what the GOP has come to stand for so much that it becomes its own separate entity, or (2) does it support those who will ultimately run on the GOP ticket, give the GOP one more chance to return to its conservative roots, and really make its party leaders think twice about what policies to pursue and how to pursue them? I think the tea party collectively took the correct path. Option 1 badly fractures the Republican vote and paves the way for future democratic victories (think Ross Perot stealing votes away From Bush 1). Option 2, on the other hand, stops the relentless liberal steamroller and strips the Dems of a majority at least in the House, and denies them of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Noonan put it nicely:
"In a practical sense, the tea party saved the Republican Party in this cycle by not going third-party. It could have. The broadly based, locally autonomous movement seems to have made a rolling decision, group by group, to take part in Republican primaries and back Republican hopefuls . . . Because of this, because they did not go third-party, Nov. 2 is not going to be a disaster for the Republicans, but a triumph."
I'd like to think that the new House majority will be more responsive to what the public wants than the old one was. This week's federal and state "shellacking" shows that it cleary does NOT want what the uber-liberal policies Obama, Pelosi and Reid et. al. are peddling.
I think it's time for the democrats to come back to the middle. And what in the world is Nancy Pelosi thinking running for minority leader in the house. She is not the face democrats should want representing the party. I look forward to a more balanced congress, and hopefully both sides can work together (probably not gonna happen.)
I think the country runs best when there is a division of power among the parties rather than one-party control. It's good the tea partiers took the path they did from that standpoint.
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