Posted on 03/27/2010 10:32:45 AM PDT by Steelfish
March 27, 2010 Republican Elite In Disarray After David Frum Is Sacked By Think-Tank
Americas conservatives were in open disarray yesterday after the abrupt sacking of a leading Republican for daring to blame his party for the most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
David Frum, who coined the phrase Axis of Evil when he was a speechwriter for President Bush, was fired by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) after posting a column on his website that called healthcare reform a disaster for Republicans and blamed it squarely on their own refusal to compromise with the Obama Administration.
The prominent neo-conservative in both Bush terms said that his departure was forced by a reaction from donors to the AEI, a powerful Republican think-tank that has many former Bush Administration officials on its staff. His sacking came at the end of a week that conservatives predicted would mark the beginning of the end for Democrats in Washington. Instead President Obama has a new nuclear arms treaty to add to his healthcare Bill and it is the Republican movement that is flailing.
Mr Frum posted his column within minutes of the Democrats securing the votes to pass health reform last weekend, condemning a Republican strategy of no negotiations, no compromise, nothing. He accused his party of trying to repeat its humiliation of President Clinton in 1994 while forgetting that Mr Obama won office with a larger proportion of the popular vote. We went for all the marbles, we ended with none, he wrote.
The Republicans must accept Barack Obamas triumph and move on Barack Obama wins healthcare battle in tight vote.
As the column was distributed among Republican moderates and Democrats, quills were sharpened on the Right for retribution.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
This has nothing to do with “the Bush administration” as this piece would have you believe.
Davianna Frummington decided at some point that he hates conservatives. There is no place for him in an organization dedicated to freedom. It’s that simple.
draining the swamp
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
"Keep of trucklin'," was Mr. Frum's advice for Republicans.
Republican Elite in disarray? More like RINO elitists in disarray.
Frum ignores reality. Utterly.
I’m for more disarray if it means less elitists, across-the-aisle enablers and counterfeit conservatives in the Republican Party.
Well ... not really! :)
I made the mistake of reading the whole article and now feeling very ill. When does obumby care kick in? Think I might need it.........
I would like to see the RNC sack Michael Steele.
I don’t know about the Republican elite. I guess I don’t care. I can’t imagine any conservatives giving Frum a thought.
I would like to see the RNC sack Michael Steele.
Guess I’m not part of the elite ...
The Trojan Horse just used by the "progressives" (regressives) to accumulate power to themselves was called "health care reform." The mistake by the Republicans was that they allowed it to be promoted as being about "health care."
The principled debate should have been about liberty versus tyranny; about government control and redistribution of wealth versus individual responsibility and rights versus dependency on an elite bureaucracy and political power structure.
Frum is irrelevant.
If Bush had dumped Frum 8 years ago, and gotten an adviser who understood the importance of countering media attacks, we wouldn’t have 0 as a president now. Frum stood by while the MSM savaged GWB and didn’t correct their false charges. Good riddance Frum, albeit 8 years late.
That record was accumulated with the active support of the National Party officials and we should have repudiated them long ago. The good news is that a time of reckoning is at hand.
Frum on the other hand is a joke. This is an argument that we shouldn't attempt to hang the Liberals with their effort; that's nonsense.
Like Tonto said, “What do you mean we, white man.”
LMAO, yeah, we’re in quite the tizzy in Neanderthal land. We’ve lost our spiritual leader. And I need to read this article like I need to chase the Tyrannasauri out of my back yard. This is like saying the NY Yankees are distraught over the ingrown toenail of a local little league player.
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