Posted on 11/03/2009 4:34:29 PM PST by presidio9
The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.
Today, it is difficult to find noninterventionists in either party.
The Democrats demonstrate a disdain for capitalism, free trade and the validity of contracts. They cheer the restriction of certain types of speech on campus and in federal law, and think nation-building is our moral obligation, even when there is no discernible U.S. interest involved. Lately, the Democrats have been popularly associated with principled opposition to waging war in far-flung corners of the globe. But evidence on the ground today tells a somewhat different tale.
As for the GOP,
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Some of us still remember 911.
A federal government that focused on national defense instead of everything else would have done a better job on 9/11.
For starters the GOP needs to drop it’s Democrats.
...and not look for advice in the LA Times.
So because of 911 we just throw the Constitution out the window?
Fight them over there, or fight them here.
It is that simple.
democrats, since Jefferson never limited gov intrustion.
Dem’s have never passed a law controlling or holding its own government accountable, it only passes laws, taxes and restrictions on private business.
From 1994 to 2000 this was 50% republican.
Now the GOP has joined the Dem’s to ensure they only pass laws and taxes on the American people and never hold government accountable.
Edward H. Crane is the founder and president of the Cato Institute. Cato is pretty libertarian as think tanks go, but Crane is definitely not an LA Times employee. The WSJ has published pieces by Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.
so does Silverstein..he remember 9-11 real good...billions good...So does the Fed...won’t use Fed dollar for oil...BOOM...check out architects and engineers for 911 truth...their leader is a Reagan republican,,,,we been had my friend...check out George Herbert Walker bush calling for the new world order on Sept. 11th 1991...10 years to the day...there is real evil afoot my friend..Long live the republic!!!!against all enemies foreign AND domestic.
We used to have badass Americans like Grant and Patton.
Now we have morons who blame themselves for the violence of the enemies.
No wonder we now have the George McFly foreign policy.
God I love it when someone points out for the benefit of the uneducated that Thomas Jefferson was not a Conservative. The Conservatives of his time were all Federalists.
Fighting and nation building are two separate matters.
The first two sentences of this propaganda. I couldn’t read any further.
Edward H. Crane ran Ed Clark's Libertarian Party campaign against Reagan in 1980.
He's not entirely wrong about the neocons: you don't want them running the show.
But start talking purges and everybody comes out with an axe to take out their own particular enemies.
The writers of the LAT as so mindless that they don’t even know what a neocon is.
I must say he had me going at the beginning. Started losing me as the article went on. The deal breaker is when he called David Brooks a Neocon. C’mon!
“So because of 911 we just throw the Constitution out the window?”
Never let a crisis go to waste.
and the Democrats should drop the 0bamunists.
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