Dowd: Inherit the Windbags

[BlueInRed]

MoDo's in fine form: http://nytimes.com/2005/02/03/opinion/03dowd.html

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I knew the president, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich wanted to wipe out the psychedelic "if it feels good do it" post-Vietnam 60's and go back to the black-and-white 50's - a meaner "Happy Days.". . .

I misunderestimated this ambitious president. His social engineering schemes in the Middle East and America are breathtakingly brazen.

He doesn't just want to dismantle the 60's. He wants to dismantle the whole century - from the Scopes trial to Social Security. He can shred one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal and then go after other big safety-net Democratic programs, reversing the prevailing philosophy of many decades that our tax and social welfare systems should equalize the distribution of wealth, just a little bit. Barry Goldwater wouldn't have had the brass to take a jackhammer to that edifice.
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[Mike Niendorff]

1. Finally, someone's catching on.

This is precisely where Bush and his gang are going.

Their "ideal era" isn't 1950, it's 1890. And that is not an exaggeration.


MDN

[cosmicaug]

4. I've been saying it for a while.

Mike Niendorff wrote:

This is precisely where Bush and his gang are going.

Their "ideal era" isn't 1950, it's 1890. And that is not an exaggeration.


MDN

I've been saying it for 4 years now. Remember, he ran in 2000 on "compassionate conservatism" which was derived from Marvin Olasky's crap pining for a golden age of right about the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th.. Government should not be in the business of providing safety nets, that's to be left to private charity. And so forth.

In this context destroying social security makes perfect sense.

[BlueInRed]

5. Sure would love to see an exact quote of that stuff about the safety nets

We could hang him out to dry if we could run a good quote of him saying the government shouldn't be in the business of providing safety nets. If you run across one, you should post it. :)

[cosmicaug]

6. Sorry.

BlueInRed wrote:

We could hang him out to dry if we could run a good quote of him saying the government shouldn't be in the business of providing safety nets. If you run across one, you should post it. :)

While Marvin Olasky's writings are the inspiration for "compassionate conservatism", I doubt that you'll find any actual quotes by any elected politician coming right out and saying that government shouldn't be in the business of providing safety nets. That would be politically very stupid.

[BlueInRed]

7. Well, with shrub you never know :) n/t

[tom_paine]

9. I think it's 1590, Mike

Only time will tell where these monsters take us, now that we have passed the point of no return (IMHO)

[fooj]

2. Bunch of brazen bullies!

Sneaky, smarmy and full of shit!

[flordehinojos]

3. dear maureen dowd, thou protestes a little bit too late!!!!

[primavera]

8. The Ficus of Faith

"So much for the Tree of Knowledge. Mr. Bush gives us the Ficus of Faith."

I love it, what a great line! I'm going to have to update my email signature to include that.

[realFedUp]

10. I'd love it if MoDo expanded on Dominionists, Reconstructionist Christians

The Family....

She's Catholic...they don't like them either.