JONATHAN CHAIT JUNE 17, 2011
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Speaking of the current level of crazy within the GOP, Mitt Romney has not yet released his economic plan. But he doesn't sound like a candidate who plans to let Tim Pawlenty out-crazy him:
Romney, though, praised the plan as displaying “the right instincts,” and no one on stage demurred. That exchange signaled that all of the GOP contenders will likely advance proposals for retrenching Washington that vastly exceed those that Republicans offered in earlier races. “The exchange over the Pawlenty economic plan was very telling; there was no disagreement on the principles,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, a top Romney adviser. “On economic policy, I don’t see any great disagreement among the Republican candidates.”
3 comments
As I have written numerous times, 2012 is going to be fun.
- liberalref
June 17, 2011 at 9:45pm
liberalref you have that right. For decades people have complained that the two political parties have only minor differences. Not in 2012. The Republicans are offering the classical liberal ideas of the Scottish-English-American Enlightenment while the Democrats are wedded to the continental tradition that flows from Rousseau to Karl Marx to the social democrats (misnamed in this country as "liberals"). Some of us believe that freedom, prosperity, and all around human achievement are what is important. We chose the former tradition. The left believes that equality of condition trumps all other values, and that all powerful elite is necessary to enforce equality. Whether mankind will progress or return to a new dark ages depends of the outcome of this debate.
- bulbman1066
June 18, 2011 at 1:21am
I can guess which one you think will herald in the dark ages, bulbman. It's too bad you can't see that you're the one who wants to return to a medieval economy of haves and have-nots under a pretext of "hard work" and "human achievement".
- GSpinks
June 20, 2011 at 8:03am