“CONSERVATIVE CRACKUP ON DEBT SHAKEDOWN,” screeched the headline on Huffington
Post (October 9, 2013), a statement to which I took great
exception. The unfolding disaster on the Hill is not conservative
in the least. It seems to be a toxic brew of populism and
neo-libertarianism. Or maybe it is just a manifestation of a
post-modern death wish, politically speaking, to which even
sensible Republicans have succumbed, with the potential of bringing
down their party, government, and nation in the hopeless task of
blocking Obamacare without actually winning elections.
Would William F. Buckley, Jr., Russell Kirk, Burke, Tocqueville, John Adams, Madison, or Hamilton be a party to this farce? OK, Sam Adams and Jefferson, maybe.
Isn’t there something a bit out of whack when the supposedly “conservative” party indulges in the kinds of escapades usually reserved for community organizers and followers of Saul Alinsky? That said, even Alinsky posited Rule 11, “The price of successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Assuming the Ryan plan is a constructive alternative, and I do, is shutting down Obamacare without winning the White House or at least the Senate, really an option?
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/10/suicide-of-the-right
Would William F. Buckley, Jr., Russell Kirk, Burke, Tocqueville, John Adams, Madison, or Hamilton be a party to this farce? OK, Sam Adams and Jefferson, maybe.
Isn’t there something a bit out of whack when the supposedly “conservative” party indulges in the kinds of escapades usually reserved for community organizers and followers of Saul Alinsky? That said, even Alinsky posited Rule 11, “The price of successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Assuming the Ryan plan is a constructive alternative, and I do, is shutting down Obamacare without winning the White House or at least the Senate, really an option?
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/10/suicide-of-the-right
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