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Obama's Lead; Which Way GOP; Greenspan’s Goof?
A heckuva show today, Tony’s a trifle testy over unfair allegations he says are being made against Republicans, the McCain campaign and Sarah Palin. And what about that wardrobe budget? Tony predicts the next conservative revolution will be populist, not intellectual. Plus: is “socialism” code for racism? Is “family values”? Who’s really using the race card and how? And a big discussion about capitalism, the (so-called?) free market, concentration of capital, corporate fascism and Euro-Socialism. And did Greenspan undermine the theory of capitalism by admitting his surprise about how little oversight was being exercised at top financial institutions? (Sorry to say, Arianna was unavailable today.)
LINKS
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/23/updated-report/
UPDATED REPORT: McCain’s Tax Plan Would Have Saved The McCains $730,000
An updated analysis of the Obama and McCain tax plans by the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that John and Cindy McCain would have saved $730,000 over 2006 and 2007 under McCain’s tax plan. Under Obama’s proposed plan, the McCains would have saved $62,000 over the same two years. Read the full analysis here.
***************************************************************************************************EJ Dionne
Civil War on the Right 10.24.08
WASHINGTON — Conservatives are at each other’s throats, and here’s what’s revealing about how divided they are: The critics of John McCain and the critics of Sarah Palin represent entirely different camps.
Skeptical social conservatives are precisely the people McCain was trying to mollify by picking Palin as his running mate. These include the faithful of the religious right who remember McCain as their enemy in 2000, and parts of the gun crowd who always saw McCain as soft on their issues.
That McCain felt a need to
make such an outlandishly risky choice speaks to how insecure his hold was on
the core Republican vote. A candidate is supposed to rally the base during the
primaries and reach out to the middle at election time. McCain got it backward,
and it’s hurting him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/?nid=top_opinions
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NYTimes Magazine Preview,
The Making (and Remaking) of McCain
By ROBERT DRAPER
Published: October 22, 2008
On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 24, John McCain convened a meeting in his suite at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Among the handful of campaign officials in attendance were McCain’s chief campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, and his other two top advisers: Rick Davis, the campaign manager; and Mark Salter, McCain’s longtime speechwriter. The senator’s ears were already throbbing with bad news from economic advisers and from House Republican leaders who had told him that only a small handful in their ranks were willing to support the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The meeting was to focus on how McCain should respond to the crisis — but also, as one participant later told me, “to try to see this as a big-picture, leadership thing.”
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October 24, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting
for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus
that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of
wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in
the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/security_first_why_im_voting_f.html
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October 22, 2008
The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative By Tony Blankley
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_birth_of_the_metoo_conserv.html
With the rise to enduring power of President
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933, a new type of Republican emerged in
reaction to FDR's attractive and overawing power: the me-too Republican. Until
the election of President Reagan five decades later, these me-too Republicans
supported, rather than opposed, Democratic Party policies but claimed they
would administer them better. Of course, this led to a half-century of
Democratic dominance of American government and politics.
June 13, 2008
All of us at Left, Right and Center extend our hearfelt sympathies to the family of Tim Russert. News of his death reached us more than an hour after we recorded our program.
June 13, 2008
Quotable quotes:
Amity Shlaes says economics often lays the path for politics.
Bob Scheer says Hummers didn't drive us to high oil prices.
Arianna Huffington says McCain sounds like Bob Dole -- it's the 80s all over again.
Matt Miller wonders aloud whether the media is destroying democracy.
Congrats to Arianna: Huffington Post has again been named a big Webby Award winner -- 2008 awards go to her for best political blog and favorite People's Voice blog in the political category.
Amity Shlaes is our guest conservative again while Tony is in China (he's back next week). Bob Scheer opens the conversation about the Supreme Court decision in favor of Guantanamo detainees saying that 6 years without any idea of why you've been arrested and without access to a lawyer is much too long, and points out the irony that in defending our freedom, we've undermined the whole notion of freedom thanks to the Bush anti-terrorism policies.
Amity says the decision isn't about right or wrong, but a procedural matter. She says the issue of suspending habeas corpus goes back to Lincoln and even to the founding fathers.
Matt Miller wonders if this puts the Supreme Court at the heart of the election campaign -- Arianna Huffington says, you betcha, it points out the dramatic differences between McCain and Obama -- McCain says he'd reverse Roe v. Wade.
Conversation moves to a discussion of high gas prices and substantive conversation about Social Security, which Obama raised in a speech today, on his economic tour of America.
Bob reminds us that Wolfowitz said Iraqi oil would pay for the war and give us more oil (not like Vietnam, where their chief export was shrimp). But we're actually paying double now, for war debt and higher gas prices
Amity and Matt come down on the same side saying market forces need to drive change; and Amity talks about scholar Pigou and his Pigovian theory that change only happens when things become too expensive.
Then they dissect Obama's proposal to raise taxable income levels for Social Security to $250,000. Amity and Matt demonstrate how this raises the effective tax rate on the self-employed to more than 50%, making taxes higher than Europe.
Then there's some chat about the media, about Hillary and sexism, racism, about Jim Johnson and what his choice by Obama as a VP Vetter says about Obama...then you can enjoy the rants!
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