Tax Cuts & Torture
Posted on April 28th, 2009
by Clark Stooksbury |
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I see (via John Cole) that South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint greeted the departure of Arlen Specter by stating that, “I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 that don’t have a set of beliefs.”
It sounds nice, but his party stands for tax cuts and torture; and if you hear them prattling about limiting government, it is because they no longer control the reigns.
UPDATE: Sestamibi comments:
“. . . controls the reigns”????!!!
Either this is a pun or a typo or you are totally illiterate.
Obviously, it is an unintentional pun.
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“. . . controls the reigns”????!!!
Either this is a pun or a typo or you are totally illiterate.
Great example we set for condemning the public education blob.
Re: “…principles of limited government…”
Excepting the authority to wage perpetual war.
OK we get it. The GOP is insincere on limited government and is not conservative properly understood on foreign policy, but isn’t this some progress? Don’t you have to start somewhere? Would we rather them praise big government sincerely or pay lip service to limited government insincerely? With the former you have to change the rhetoric and the sincerity. With the later you just have to change the sincerity.
Wouldn’t it be more helpful to say “Glad you have come around some. Hope you come around more” than “You’re all a bunch of hypocrites because you spent too much under Bush.” The second statement is obviously true, but what is that they say about honey and vinegar?
Now in this time of seething discontent with the GOP leadership (HT: “The Front Page”), won’t someone come forward to help break up the absurd two-party duopoly?
Sixteen states allow constitutional amendments via initiative and referendum. Electing one house of a state legislature by party-list PR could give viability to one or more “third parties”.
“Range Voting” could also be applied for the POTUS election and just about any other office.
http://rangevote.net/
http://reformthelp.org/issues/voting/range.php
I hereby pledge a minimum of $200 to a serious campaign to implement one or both reforms in a likely state.
“Excepting the authority to wage perpetual war”
Not to excuse the GOP, but I seem to recall that trend starting with the other party.