From a Ms. Einhorn of Berkeley??? Wonder if it is biased, LOL.
One might think the record of the Bush administration and Republican Congress -- from domestic spying to Terri Schiavo to a long and expensive war -- would explode the idea that the difference between liberals and conservatives has something to do with the power of government to intervene in our lives. Yet the stereotype of strong-government liberals and weak-government conservatives continues to shape American political debate, especially when the subject is taxes. The Republicans who substitute debt for tax revenue may actually be feeding rather than starving "the beast," but the idea that Americans have always distrusted this "beast" allows them to paint antigovernment rhetoric as an apple-pie invocation of the national tradition.
The Myth that Low Taxes and Liberty Go Hand in Hand
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Sullivan and Danforth agree that the vote by the Republican majority in the U.S. House and Senate to overrule a state court in the Terri Schiavo case was the final straw in allowing the Christian conservatives to take over the GOP. To them, it signaled the final abandonment of the Republican Party's long-held principle of keeping government out of private family decisions.
Religious right has controlled Republican Party for far too long
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