Wednesday, September 2, 2009

A Conservative on the Conservative Movement

Okay, let's get this Blog up & running for the 2009-2010 season. Newsweek has just published a Q&A between John Meacham, editor, and Sam Tannenhaus. Tannenhaus' responses remind us how desperately we need the traditional Republican conservatives to rediscover their voice in order for our democracy to get back on track. I for one have not been pleased with how our President has been handling himself on Health Care (and the jury is still out on Afghanistan).Here is an excerpt and the full link is below it.

...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....

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214253

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  1. peterSeptember 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM

    Kendall:

    The conservative party has been hijacked by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Palin and Bachman. When are some sane conservatives going to stand up and be the voices for the party? It would be better for the country if they did that, for it would force Obama and the Democrats to take a stand on some of these pivotal issues, like Health Care, the Environment and the Iraq War, not to mention Afghanistan, where even George Will has concerns about our strategy. Much more later, but that is just a quick response.

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