"Mitt Romney has made clear during this primary season that he was
willing to be neither moderate nor independent — but rather "severely
conservative" — in seeking the Republican nomination. He was willing
to court the far right wing of his party and advance its agenda — a
frightening fiscal agenda and an even more frightening social agenda.
"
On Apr 26, 12:21 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> "The Keynesian analysis is so wrong that it is beyond redemption. The one, fundamental change that is needed is its total abandonment." -- George Reisman, 1996At 12:53 PM 4/26/2012, you wrote:We Are Not Stupid
> By CHARLES M. BLOW
> It's still about Mitt Romney, and we're not stupid.
> After his primary wins on Tuesday, Mitt Romney delivered a nice speech
> with some punchy lines, and the pundits jumped and flipped like a
> troupe from Cirque du Soleil.
> But it was all about framing an argument. It was tactical.
> I don't give two cents about tactics at the moment. I prefer to keep
> my eyes squarely trained on the issues and where the parties and their
> candidates have either demonstrated or indicated that they plan to
> take the country.
> That reveals their values. That reveals a contrast so stark that no
> theatrical triumph or failure can disguise or ameliorate it.
> Romney is still Romney and he's still running as the head of a party
> that has spent the last few years pursuing a profoundly regressive
> agenda.
> Romney tried Tuesday night to frame the debate largely around economic
> issues, but as the 2010 midterm elections showed, economic issues are
> something of a Trojan horse for the right.
> Let's just get this out of the way: Times are tough. But most people
> are smart enough to know that these tough times were long in the
> making and will be long in the fixing. There are no magic words or
> silver bullets or emerging bubbles that will quickly and easily return
> us to a pre-recession, pre-collapse sense of prosperity.
> That is because we were all complicit in a lie. The government spent
> too much (on tax cuts and wars), many banks gambled too much and many
> people borrowed too much. That was the economy. All that money
> swirling around lulled us into a false sense of security.
> When it all fell apart, an overextended government had to help
> overextended banks and overextended borrowers. The money stopped
> swirling. Jobs that flourished during the boom became scarce.
> The debt grew and the economy shrank.
> The government underestimated the crisis and underfinanced the
> stimulus package aimed at fixing it. So things got worse before they
> slowly began to get better. And structural economic issues, like the
> deflation in the housing market, remain.
> In an oversimplified nutshell, that is what happened: a complex mix of
> poor choices and inadequate responses. Now we have to ask ourselves if
> things have fundamentally changed forever.
> The president tried to help fix a mess that he didn't make, but the
> fixing has come slowly. Is that failure? Romney and the Republicans
> say yes.
> Dominick Reuter/Reuters
> Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, at a primary night rally in Manchester,
> N.H. on April 24.
> And, if they can keep framing it as a failure, they can push for, and
> maybe even push through, their brutal budgets, which cut programs that
> help the poor and struggling and benefit the rich.
> And while they push their budgets, they make savage attacks on a broad
> range of issues: voting rights, women's rights, gay rights,
> immigration, etc.
> This is the trick: Run on fiscal conservatism; bring social
> conservatism along for the ride. The Trojan horse platform.
> Mitt Romney has made clear during this primary season that he was
> willing to be neither moderate nor independent — but rather "severely
> conservative" — in seeking the Republican nomination. He was willing
> to court the far right wing of his party and advance its agenda — a
> frightening fiscal agenda and an even more frightening social agenda.
> Yes, this election is about the economy. Every election is to some
> degree. But it is also about priorities and values and the social
> direction of this country. This is about the uniquely different
> visions of our country as presented by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney,
> and about which man is most likely to be effective and fair.
> No number of tactical speeches will make us forget that. We are not stupid.
> More:http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/we-are-not-stupid/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120426
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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