Posted on 03/25/2010 12:02:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
President Barack Obama's winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal to just barely make it happen, without a single Republican vote. If the Democrats now lose seats in the midterm elections, we're headed for even worse gridlock, even though we still have so much more nation-building for America to do — from education to energy to environment to innovation to tax policy. That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center.
...Larry Diamond, a Stanford University democracy expert, put it best: “If you don't get governance right, it is very hard to get anything else right that government needs to deal with. We have to rethink in some basic ways how our political institutions work, because they are increasingly incapable of delivering effective solutions any longer.”
...The radical center is “radical” in its desire for a radical departure from politics as usual. It advocates: raising taxes to close our budgetary shortfalls, but doing so with a spirit of equity and social justice; guaranteeing that every American is covered by health insurance, but with market reforms to really bring down costs; legally expanding immigration to attract more job-creators to America's shores; increasing corporate tax credits for research and lowering corporate taxes if companies will move more manufacturing jobs back onshore; investing more in our public schools, while insisting on rising national education standards and greater accountability for teachers, principals and parents; massively investing in clean energy, including nuclear, while allowing more offshore drilling in the transition. You get the idea....
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Wouldn't someone with more than two brain cells in a row call that an oxymoron?
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
The Jumbo Shrimp Party.
LMAO
According to today’s Ras: 59% of Independents (i.e. the radical center) want Obamacare repealed.
’ buy off companies ‘
Would that be catarpillar, Deere and Verizon????
The Sasperillo Party?
“...even though we still have so much more nation-building for America to do...”
WE ALREADY HAVE A NATION YOU COMMIE BROWNSHIRT..STOP HELPING TO DESTROY IT!!
(sorry for yelling...but these people are pissing me off...lol)
Larry Diamond, a Stanford University democracy expert, put it best: “If you don’t get governance right, it is very hard to get anything else right that government needs to deal with. We have to rethink in some basic ways how our political institutions work, because they are increasingly incapable of delivering effective solutions any longer.”
translation: “The Constitution is BROKEN and MUST be FIXED!”
Nothing moderate here....just the hard-core Left coucuing its desires in very bland tones.
Thomas Friedman is not a moderate by any stretch of the imagination. Didn’t this guy fawn all over the Chinese Politburo as the best way to run a country?
Oh and the grey headed men and the nice clean clothes and the teenagers and moms complete with strollers...just a REAL MEAN BUNCH OF RADICALS who it is EASY to imagine standing at the voting entrance, holding night sticks and wearing leather. Oh sure. REALLY SCARY AMERICANS!
SO SCARY that pelosi and her sick crowd of black sycophants just had TO WAlk RIGHT THROUGH the THICK of the proestors in DC, nancy holding a big stick, or, make that HUGE GAVEL and TAUNTING the scary grey headed and family oriented crowd, just HOPING for some kind of violence. (Liberals live for it, donchaknow!)
The myth of the “center” can’t exert itself in real politics. There are socialists here and conservatives here Moderate mush muffins are one or the other and probably confused. So called Neocons or establishment types are simply Keynesian poo peddlers who paint over leftest turds and call them medicine.
Time was that the moderates were still in support of the American ideal where everyone pulls their own weight. Now “socialism” is considered a moderate idea (one which redistributes from producers to the 40% who pay no income tax).
He won 3 pulitzers writing for the NYet Times so he very well COULD be a Communist. It’s happened with Communist writers at the NYT before...
Radically incapable of establishing a set of convictions, let alone the will to make any attempt to defend them, combined with a terminal case of indecisive paralysis right out of the gate. LOL.
It’s a good thing for Thomas Friedman he married into a wealthy family. His desk, his word processor and the building he works in will soon be on the liquidator’s auction block.
This is just the left trying to re-define itself for the purpose of upcoming elections. They’re trying to escape the “socialist” label they’ve been branded with, long enough to get votes. Much like Hussein did in his campaign. It also serves the purpose of painting those on the right as “extreme”.
On the nose.
Gridlock is good!
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