Requiem for the Right (serious barf)

Newsweak ^ | 8/29/2008 | Jon Meacham

[Minn]

The editor of The New York Times Book Review and the paper's "Week in Review" section, Sam Tanenhaus is the biographer of Whittaker Chambers and is at work on the life of William F. Buckley Jr. In a new, short book, The Death of Conservatism, he argues that the right needs to find its footing for the good of the country. In an e-mail exchange with Jon Meacham, Tanenhaus reflected on the book's themes. Excerpts:

[Minn]

The Democrats now dominate our heliocentric system—first on the economic stimulus, which is already proving to be at least a limited success, and now on the issue of health-care reform. These are both entirely Democratic initiatives. The Republicans, so intent on thwarting Obama, have vacated the field, and left it up to the sun party to accept the full burden of legislating us into the future. If the Democrats succeed, Republicans will be tagged as the party that declined even to help repair a broken system and extend fundamental protections—logical extensions of Social Security and Medicare—to some 46 million people who now don't have them. This could marginalize the right for a generation, if not longer. Rush Limbaugh's stated hope that Obama will fail seems to have become GOP doctrine. This is the attitude not of conservatives, but of radicals, who deplore the very possibility of a virtuous government.

Yea, sounds like a conservative to me. Everybody knows the whole country is solidly behind the stimulus and a government health care takeover, right? The naked propaganda these people are capable of, knows no bounds.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Haw! These fools know that when the Rats are forced to OWN the blasted thing they will be out on their ear as quickly as poop down a (working) toilet.

[stephenjohnbanker]

He is about as conservative as Saul Alinsky ;-)

[Frantzie]

NewsWeak is owned by Wash Post - Graham family and stinking Warren Buffett is a majority if not the majority shareholder.

[SuziQ]

They sure have a lot of HOPE that conservatives will CHANGE, and stop opposing their Dear Leader.

Not ruddy likely.

[PJ-Comix]

Actually Tanenhause wrote a good biography of Whittaker Chambers.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Actually Tanenhause wrote a good biography of Whittaker Chambers.”

He should have stopped with Chambers. Can I get a “Witness” ?