Why The GOP Is Unraveling
by Buck • Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 11:11 amAnd what a beautiful sight it is.
Excellent article by Drew Westen over at The Huffington Post about why the wheels are flying off the GOP bus:
The Five Strands of Conservatism: Why the GOP is Unraveling
In one sense, it isn’t hard to see why the Republican Party seems to be coming apart at the seams. When you get caught gutting the regulations that had kept us for 70 years from another stock market crash like the crash of 1929 and another collapse of the banking system like the one that occurred during the Great Depression, and when your policies throw millions of people out of their homes, jobs, retirement, and doctors’ offices, the next bottle of elixir you sell is not likely to fly off the shelf, especially if it’s the same whine in a new deCantor.
The five strands of conservatism:
• libertarian conservatism
• social conservatism, (Christian fundamentalism)
• old fashioned fiscal conservatism
• national security conservatism
• prejudice
April 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am
One of the main reasons that they need to is: "Meanwhile, a study of Iraq War deaths at King's College and Royal Holloway College in the UK has found that 85% of the deaths caused by US aerial bombardment of targets in Iraqi cities have been women and children".
April 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
That's a pretty good piece.