Comments on: Where Are The Free Market Republicans?

By: Alleen Smitthee

Alleen Smitthee — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:56:00 +0000

“which interest groups you felt more comfortable siding with (big oil or big ethanol? environmentalists or mining companies?). ”

This is like the old “Sesame Street” game of “one of these thing just doesn’t belong”:

big oil
big ethanol
mining companies
environmentalists

I consider myself an environmentalist because I don’t want to be poisoned, want my surroundings to be preserved not destroyed, etc. I’m not trying to enrich myself or my stockholders. Big difference.

By: FreeDem

FreeDem — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:24 +0000

TGGP is spot on. I once had a professor who had worked extensively for the Executive Branch during the Reagan-Bush Era and then the Congress after the Republican Revolution. His entire view of legislative politics was focused on the various ways in which factions can hold up and delay legislation. A true conservative.

At the same time, understanding all of the tools available to delay legislation makes me all the more angry at Democratic capitulation.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:16:28 +0000

I mean some sort of actual wanted change, as opposed to just preventing an unwanted change
Change isn’t very conservative, but preventing change is.

By: Avram

Avram — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:08:42 +0000

I was wondering — What positive victories can the libertarian-conservative alliance of 1953-1999 claim? There’s the lowering of marginal income tax rates under Reagan, and what else?

(By “positive victories” I mean some sort of actual wanted change, as opposed to just preventing an unwanted change.)