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Are Progressives Out of Ideas?
One of the main reasons bandied about for the GOP's decline is its lack of ideas. According to this re-telling, conservative think tanks once kept the idea pipeline freshly stocked, and it was this intellectual revival that underpinned GOP victories in 1980 and 1994.
The fact that this argument gets made internally shows that conservatives care more about ideas even when they (supposedly) don't have any than Democrats do when they are ascendant and (supposedly) chock full of them.
Witness my daily e-mail from the Center for American Progress: The New New Deal.
We are now engaged in a full-on debate over the return of nearly eight decades old economic policy, with George Will and Tyler Cowen weighing in on one side of the new New Deal debate and Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, and OpenLeft arguing on the other.
But no one is pointing out that having a debate over the New Deal in 2008, much less recreating it, is patently absurd. The New Deal began 76 years ago. The New Deal is about as relevant today as the economic policies of John Quincy Adams were at the turn of the 20th century or Reconstruction was in the post-World War II period. Republicans should be mocking the fact that "change" apparently means 76-year-old economic dogma that first burst onto the scene a few years after the Talkies became all the rage.
The age of liberalism's ideas should be at issue here. The agenda of the incoming Obama administration is looking remarkably similar to an unfinished to-do list from the time Democrats last had complete control of the government 16 years ago: an economic stimulus (albeit one 30 times as profligate), national health care, and gays in the military.
Don't they have any new ideas?
Democrats have made an electoral killing off the idea that Republican ideas are old. One of their major memes in the last election was that John McCain was too old and couldn't use a Blackberry. So it is ironic that their new, young, and fresh! President is directly modeling his agenda off that tried during a decade-long prolonged depression older than the man he defeated.
King Henry tried the other idea.
Friedman's I mean.
Would you care to suggest something else to stop this? I'm all ears.
Umm.. no
There has been a great deal of ink, anger, and tears spent by Conservatives trying to undo
a. A Progressive Income Tax, where higher earners pay higher taxes
b. Keynesian stimulus of the Economy via government spending.
These two battles are still being fought, and will continue to be fought as they have been since September 1774 by the men who met at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
I watched with amusement as Dr. Krugman handed George Will his Conservative myths on the New Deal in a handbasket.
Progressive ideas under Obama ARE new:
The idea of a new generation of an American Economy, and its Recovery based on Energy Independence are new.
Seeing Energy as a National Security issue are new.
Obama's proposed economic stimulus package is unprecedented in size, scope, and reach.
Obama's Progressive vision of a Foreign Policy grounded in mutual global collaboration, and a world united to meet and overcome unprecedented global challenges such as terrorism, radical climate change, and global trade issues is new.
Progressives are stoked, energized, and impatient to get this country moving forward.
Conservatives, as usual, are focussing on criticizing, second-guessing, obstructing, and standing in the way of progress, and trying desperately to maintain and preserve the status quo and worse, to go back to the halcyon days they imagined under Ronald Reagan. That's what Conservatives are all about, by definition, for God's sake: The past.
A great American, Thomas Paine, said: "LEAD, FOLLOW, or get the HELL out of the WAY!"
We have seen these bitter 12 years Conservatives are unable to lead. We are seeing they will not follow. And now we will see them refuse to get the Hell out of the way!
No taxation without a Keynesian stimulus of the Economy! Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, I'm thinking.
To respond to your points:
--"The idea of a new generation of an American Economy, and its Recovery based on Energy Independence." See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_energy.html
--"Seeing Energy as a National Security issue." See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_crisis.html
--"Obama's proposed economic stimulus package is unprecedented in size, scope, and reach." Taking your predecessor's bad economic ideas and doubling down on them is not new. See: those George Will "conservative myths" on the New Deal you referenced earlier.
--"Obama's Progressive vision of a Foreign Policy grounded in mutual global collaboration, and a world united to meet and overcome unprecedented global challenges..." See: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points_Speech
New Ideas
Carter's ideas were also revolutionary and visionary. And what have Conservatives done for thirty years but mock and denigrate them?
But Obama's ideas take Carter's foundations and extends them and builds and erect complete new structures based on today's issues, and on our common future, not our past.
1. Carter only took Energy as a foundation for our Economy in the direction of Conservation and a more prudent use of our resources. Obama's stated vision is millions of new jobs, new industries, and selling our discoveries, our green technologies, our new methods and materials in trade to other countries to replace the manufacturing and materials jobs we've lost.
2. Energy as a National Security Issue was never imagined with the importance and urgency of a post-911 world. Obama knows that 3000 Americans are dead in part because of Gas pipelines and oil rights and Energy concerns in Afghanistan. Oil Companies are in Iraq and Kuwait and Kazakhstan and other places where their and our American interests put us in conflict with other countries, and continue to put us at risk.
3. "Unprecedented" means new. You could look it up.
4. Wilson's 14 points were once again a primitive foundation, a base. The League of Nations Wilson described never got off the ground and crashed in flames, under fire from Conservatives. In Wilson's time there was no European Union, no China as an Economic behemoth and a totalitarian state, no United States as a total military and Economic Superpower, dominating the entire world and yet dangerously losing speed and altitude and headed for a huge decline and fall.
Obama's ideas represent the fresh, new energy that states strongly that countries and societies can work together, that the US does not always have to dominate or be the best and brightest, only the hardest worker, the most generous contributor, the leader in decency, in freedom, in human rights, in the dream of our forefathers of a great nation founded on the proposition that all men are created equal, and will be afforded the opportunity to excel equally, and will be equally able to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. And some will excel more than others, and that's part of Obama's story,and the story of America as well.
NOTHING is more new than the fact that a Black man has been elected President of this great Nation, and it has made us greater.
The "size, scope, and reach" of Obama's stimulus package is going to dwarf anything Roosevelt or Johnson did? If I had said that during the campaign, I think you would have called me a liar.
Also, to repeat the point I made in the first post, on the stimulus package and bailout(s) Obama is playing FDR to Bush's Hoover. He's proposing something that will probably be bigger, but is mostly in continuity with Bush's economic proposals from the last few years. And therefore not all that new.
I think you are mistaken
but you're talking about things that I only remember from high school, so if you have some scholastic research, please help!
Hoover was a stubborn laissez faire proponent (FDR was as well, but people poured fire down his neck and he MOVED.) -- this is not to say that he wasn't smart, but he was entirely wrong.
He thought that we were looking at a Black Swan Event, which was a reasonable assumption, for a while.
Not new, just different
The past election cycle was very much about claiming the leadership within the parties, and for the Democrats, the conservatives (or moderates, what have you) won.
Really, the fruity fringe is all up in arms about it.
The fact is that conservative Democrats outnumber the fringe left, but it's the fringe that seems to be the loudest. That's why Reagan was able to use the charge of 'catering to special interest groups' against them so effectively. It was true.
That's changing. That is new.
And you can see the beginning of that in Obama's foregoing of campaign money from those traditionally Democratic groups.
But 'New?' No.
Obama's economic policies will be dominated by the (now discredited) Chicago School
His social policies will be dominated by the more conservative minority base.
He will be a great disappointment to the Left, for the most part.
But you will never beat this man by waiting for him to screw up the way that GWB did. There will be no Katrina disasters here. He's too smart for that, too wily.
As for where did the Republicans go wrong, the time of the neo-cons is at an end. It is now a period of re-organization.
Grover Norquist, Jonah Goldberg, et al, were never on par with a Newt Gingrich.
It's time to call the children in from recess.
Pragmatic Democrats aren't precisely conservative
(though fiscally I think you're right).
I hope that the era of big business republicans and religious right republicans is at an end. I can see the fissures forming already...
Awesome Rebuttal!!
There is nothing new under the sun.
Obama's biggest agenda is going to be New Deal 2.0.
Carter's energy policy 2.0.
HillaryCare 2.0.
Bailouts without end.
IT WILL FAIL NOW AS IT HAS BEFORE (See Japan 1990s, FDR 1930s).
George will has no scholastic integrity
can you please listen to someone competent? Other people around here recommend GOOD conservative economic blogs (not me. I prefer the people who figured out about problems ahead of time)
Will does write something worthwhile...
...about three times a year.
When he's good, he's really good-- he's excellent.
Easy to miss it due to the boredom factor.
umm... that was teddy that gave us a progressive income tax
1900 or so, not 1774. And Keynes came after him (though you could argue that the WHIGs were pretty big about infrastructure investment, which leads to productivity increases...)
I admire your enthusiasm, but -- historical accuracy??
Why 76-yr-old ideas are still valid
Republicans have never, never repudiated the entire New Deal socialist foundation - only tinkered with slowing its progress - which is why these 76-year-old ideas still have legs.
Any ideas that consist of transferring the nation's tax wealth via the individual income tax (i.e., stealing from some citizens' wallets) to "less fortunate" or "entitled" citizens (even non-citizens) are always in fashion for some. If the goal is income redistribution by force, who cares if the idea is 5,000 years old?
They never give up these ideas, no matter how badly they're defeated in elections (e.g., 1994). Democrats will always view any Republican interruptions of their control of the federal government *not* as voter repudiation of core Democrat ideas, but simply as pesky irritations that slow down implementation of the entire redistribution package. That package now includes federalized health care, preschool and after-school care.
I don't know how, or even if, Republicans can combat the Democrats' continual stimulation of greed and envy in people's hearts. (Social Security can't be ended - only privatized perhaps - and our own Reagan created the Department of Education to dispense ever-growing subsidies to the teachers' unions, who every day teach our children in factory schools to hate freedom, enterprise and faith in God, and love socialism.)
The other thing the Dems have done is to tell outright lies repeatedly in order to get elected and then stay in power. They've also shamelessly stolen Republican ideas and positions in order to get elected and stay in power (Clinton, Obama). Republicans have to be ready to point this out - to expose these liars and thieves who don't care about ethical means, only achieving their ends. There really is no room for "peaceful co-existence" with people who are trying to bury you.
I believe the only thing Republicans can do is painstakingly point out Democrats' role in stealing our money, bankrupting the federal government and increasing its control over our personal lives - include GWB in that, too, unfortunately - and call for a rejection of the whole gooey mess. The TV ads during the Hillary health care crisis (Harry and Louise?) worked pretty well, as they put these facts into human terms that real people can understand. Is it possible to dumb-down Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" to fit on bumper stickers?
I agree with your post
Except about the part that Reagan created the Dept. of Education. That was done by Carter as payoff to the NEA (I do believe the American Federation of Teachers did oppose it at the time). Reagan promised to undo it, but well so much for that.
By the way Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism is such a brilliant and seminal work on the state of the American Left and its very real fascist tendacies that I just don't think you could "dumb it down" to a bumper sticker slogan the average young person who was educated in today's public education system would understand.
Jonah Goldberg
..is an incredible douchebag, and is widely known as "The Doughy Pantload" for good reason.
His work on the absurdity of "Liberal Fascism" is almost a self-parody of the CONservative Movement, , and has caused only great merriment and mockery among serious scholars.
Goldberg was instrumental in why I gave up reading the editorials in the newspaper.
What an idiot.
the fact that the idiots are on the right
is an indication of exactly how right-leaning the media is. ;-)
Oh plsease spare me your sanctimonious bullshit
Jonah Goldberg is brilliant and you simply can't argue against his premise. I am tired of you assclowns who wanting to live in your leftist fantasy that only "your kind" has acdemic credentials. In fact most of your so-called academics parrot the same old quasi-intellectual garbage descended from Marx that is simply repackaged for your intellectual masturbation.
Please point me to the conservative alternatives...
Let's assume for a moment that 100% of the country were to wake up one day and suddenly agree with conservatives/Republicans that Obama is clueless or evil, or both. Where do we go to find the alternatives proposed by Republicans that will allow us to avoid the inevitable Obama failures? I'm not being snarky just sincerely curious: I hear a lot of rhetoric from conservatives/Republicans about the error of Obama's ways, but not once do I hear them go on to list their proposals for how the following issues should be handled instead:
- Economy/bailouts
- Health care
- Environment/energy
- Jobs
- National security/terrorism
Again, not be snarky but curious, can you point me to a website or some other source that explains the alternatives advocated by conservatives? I never heard anything specific on these topics during the election or since, of any significance, offering alternative solutions. The closest McCain came was trumpeting the surge and that he alone knew some way to find bin Laden, but precious little else of any specifics. We all may be happy to join you in shooting down Obama's plans if we had any clue what Republicans see as the alternatives.
RE conservative alternatives
I have to agree with acinphx on the dearth of conservative ideas brought forth in recent years. That's because we didn't have any conservatives running at the top of the national ticket in 2004 or 2008.
However, riffing off my earlier comment, Americans are now used to looking to the federal government to solve every problem - despite the Constitution's deliberate restriction of the role of the federal government by reserving many rights to the States, through the interstate-commerce clause, and by restricting the federal government's revenues to indirect taxes.
Since 1916, however, the federal government has had direct access to every American's wallet through income taxation and - since WW2 - to continuing access via paycheck withholding. Add in a Social Security system whose original safety-net purpose was deliberately expanded by the Democrats to include payments for welfare and almost any problem you can name (including alcoholism as a "disease"), and you can see why so many people now look to the federal government to be sugar daddy and provide all the answers.
For years, the Republicans have just gone along with so many of these issues, unable or unwilling to argue for restraint, prudence, and fiscal responsibility as did the Founding Fathers. Now that much of the citizenry is used to getting government checks, government bailouts, government solutions to every problem, how can conservatives suggest less cash is the ultimate answer, rather than the Democrats endless more more more cash?
It seems that for every issue conservatives would like to turn back government involvement/control to the private sector - to reduce taxation and get inefficient government out of our lives - there's a federally funded industry to fight them. Two examples:
1) education: vouchers or support for home schooling? Try fighting the teachers unions
2) restrictions on abortion or embryonic stem-cell research? Try fighting the multi-billion-dollar dead-baby industry, which will undoubtedly have its federal cash tap turned back on by Obama.
I too am waiting for someone creative to offer conservative solutions that will sound more attractive to the citizenry than endless dollops of tax monies to every conceivable interest group.
I know government isn't the answer to everything but...
by the same token, leadership and policy on key issues of national scope can only be set by the federal government. It seems unproductive at best to expect 50 separate state policies on overarching issues like the environment, fiscal regulation, immigration, etc., to produce the best results. I am not a person who thinks every solution depends on a government check. But I also don't believe that unfettered free markets always reach the best solution. This is where my quandary is: like them or not, at least Obama/Democrats seem to talk about and are attempting solutions, though admittedly they lean to the 'big government' type. On the other hand, conservatives seem to do nothing but whine and moan about what the Democrats are doing but without coming out and saying what they would do instead. Do they lack ideas or just don't want to be honest about what their ideas are? I just want to know what they would do instead. Leave it all to free markets? Leave almost everything but national defense to the states? If not either of those, what do they propose the federal government do about these issues?
And as I said, I don't feel that government is or should be the solution to every problem. On the other hand, I think conservatives give way too much credence to the old Reagan saw that "government is the problem." We're always going to have a government. Why, then, should we "hire" people (Republicans) to run something they see as a 'problem'? Would you do your best work for an employer that you viewed as a 'problem'? In that light, it's no wonder the Republicans have seemed to 'run' the government into the ground for the past several years. If I were an employer, why would I hire someone who wanted to work for me but went about town loudly proclaiming that my company is the problem? It just doesn't make sense. If you want the job, you had better be prepared to tell me why you're the best person for the job and your ideas for improving my company. It's nothing but the lazy way out to run around declaring others (individuals and entities) are the problem and at the same time offering no productive solutions of your own.
you should check out Dr. David Brin's blog
it's a fascinating read, and you'll find a lot of 'middle of the road' solutions.
I'm a 'middle of the road' type person. We need gov't , and we need free markets. We need gov't to preserve free markets for National security (global warming is a nat'l security issue -- just ask Gen'l Clark)
dead babies or dead adults? you decide.
Parkinson's kills a lot of people, you know.
The founding fathers should not be freaking worshipped. Particularly when their time was SO DIFFERENT from ours.
You aren't calling for the gold standard are you? ;-)
Who are you calling 'Progressives?'
These people are the degenerate remnants of institutionalized identity politics, which in turn devolved from the issue-based student movements of the 60's.
Hence, their vision of Tolerance & Diversity entail complete homogeneity of thought.
They are no more 'Progressive' than they are starfish.
It is unacceptable to allow them to claim the title of great Republican leaders of the past.
No, I believe that McCain was the progressive running for president.
Obama is a conservative Democrat, which is typical of minorities.
But the blacks, latinos, muslims, et al, that have a cultural predisposition toward social conservatism have been blocked out, most notably by the hands of the Old Guard-- Limbaugh, Coulter, et al.
It's a typical urban black Baptist you're up against, not some sort of progressive.
You sound as shrill as radical
left hippies who call Bush and the Republican party "lizard men" who are secretly scheming with some master plan that drives every twist and turn of our government's actions. Throwing in phrases like "a typical urban black Baptist" simply distances you even further from reality.
You must be mistaken.
I was Assistant Minister of Music at a black baptist church in Parkville, Mo, (a suburb of Kansas City) for two years.
Simply reporting what I saw as accurately as I can.
But I never voted for Bush. Would never dream of it, not in 1000 yrs, not if his opponent was Lucifer Himself.
The past election cycle was the first I voted Republican for president, and if you look at the candidates the Republicans have been offering, you can see why.
umm... the UUC is a white mainline denomintion
known for marrying homosexuals.
Within it, Rev. Wright's church was a minority megachurch of the evangelical stripe.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Baptists, other than the preaching style.
Beneath you, Patrick
This is a just a silly, thoughtless post that adds nothing to the debate.
Not worthy of your usual efforts, Patrick.
I come here for relevent political commentary from one of the few intelligible right leaning outlets still available, and out comes this shit? I use such a strong word simply because this post rings of sore loser syndrome, where while your victorious opponent walks away you call out some pitiful sob of a taunt.
First of all, I fail to understand the criticism of progressives for trying to finish an "unfinished to-do list," what is the point of a to do list except to finish it? If, by your own admission, the ideas which are at the core of Democratic politics have not resulted in real and lasting action in the government then what incentive is there for them to stop? With 40 million people uninsured, and as health care costs continue to accelerate while not achieving nearly as effective longevity or quality of life gains as came from previous progress in medicine the previous century... well, why shouldn't we be talking about health care?
The "new New Deal" is yet another theme picked up and spread by a frenzied media which has little to no idea what direction the Obama administration will go in first (has anyone not heard the media beating the phrase "Team of Rivals" to death, despite the fact that there are no real 'rivals' in his team at the moment?). Obama and the Democratically controlled legislative branch seem set to push through a stimulus package and they will likely get it, so why shouldn't it be more along the lines of FDR's public works programs? Most economists scoff at "stimulus" rebate checks, and question the long term usefullness of stimulus agendas anyway as any payments now are offset by taxes later. Since that is the case, why should we not at least show some prudence when stimulus is approved to shore up our waning infrastructure, and maybe even create some jobs in public works projects that will end in the near future (2-5 years) and can then be taken off the books. Instead of throwing up protectionist policies, restricting trade, or trying to pick winners in the new "green" economy, or giving tax breaks to government approved businesses and individuals?
My point is, regardless of the conversations you seem to be privy too within Republican circles, there has been an absolute failure to shine a public light on whatever the heck those are as the next phrase following "GOP" these days is "social conservatives". The slogans used by John McCain in 2008 were the same as Republican talking points have been for the past 25 years, lower taxes, Democrats can't understand what it means to be patriotic, and liberals can't be trusted at a time when the nation is under threat.
As for Barack Obama's economic agenda, in his 60 minutes interview he specifically said that while there are lessons to be learned from the past (and he did reference the New Deal), that the solutions he uses when in office will address the problems of today rather than keep trying to apply old solutions to those that no longer exist. Other than announcing his desire to pass a new stimulus package, I have seen no information about specifics that he will be using to attempt to revitalize the economy so I have to also question how it is you seem to have pinned down exactly what it is that the fairly competent looking (thus far) economic team Obama has assembled will be doing in the months to come. Creating straw men to knock down and build up the idea of "conservatives car[ing] more about ideas" when you have absolutely no clue about how much debate is going on within the new administration about what direction to take come January 20th, much less what the hell Congress will, specifically, do now that Bush will no longer keep a lid on them.
I thought this site, and its posters, were better than this. I hope you can restore my confidence going forward
arrogance and foul language
I come here for relevent political commentary from one of the few intelligible right leaning outlets still available, and out comes this shit?
Lib-tards cannot express themselves without windy pointless self-important arrogant prose .. or 4 letter words. or in this case, both. Go away you jerk. We dont need you crapping on our carpets with your arrogance and foul language.
okay, you quisling, who said that you wanted to speak french.
shut your hole.
eliminate your egress.
What, do I need to find even harder to understand words to get my fucking point across?
LibTrolls cant stop the foul language
This isn't Kos. If you want to you the F-bomb and tell people "shut you hole" do it there. You Libs seem to love being foul-mouthed jerks.
You are a world class jerk, a RisingTide of name calling BS. I know its part of the Saul Alinsky way, but did you actually take a class "A-holes 101" or does it come naturally to be such a twerp?
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." -Frederick Douglass
what's your problem?
seriously, why the censorship?
why eliminate useful words out of our vocabulary?
The irony
"We don't need your arrogance, lib-tard!" Oh, stop, my sides are killing me!
The more of you who die off the better it is for humanity.
The tolerance shown on this site
Is sure to drive more moderates into the party!
Maybe you'll get your lucky wish and I'll die next time I deploy! I'm not a combat troop, but there's always the chance I could get embedded with an army platoon. Keep crossing your fingers!
umm... big ben's on my killfile list
for very good reason.
As a Jew, I find it rather emotional to be called fascist. Let alone fascist for supporting socialism.
It's clear that he's just using hateful language, and is at any rate illiterate enough to not bother to learn whatever I'm talking about, before rallying against it, simply because it's what I said (see: Colorblind Racism).
It's not possible to have a strategic discussion with a five year old, and it's not possible to have an interesting discussion with big ben.
Clocks may be right twice a day, but I'm not sure if that's true for Big Ben.
Arrogant LibTroll twerp plays victim card
"As a Jew, I find it rather emotional to be called fascist."
Then as a LibTroll Jew spewing venom and name-calling on this board, you should think twice of falsely calling pro-freedom American conservative 'fascist' just because its the left-tards favorite stupid swear word.
You are stupid if you think it "OK" for a non-Jew to be called fascist when they are not. I guess a german is supposed to be thrilled by it?!?
Besides, by watering it down, you are insulting your fellow Jews who were victims of the real thing, n'est ce pas?
"Let alone fascist for supporting socialism."
Uh, nazi was/is National Socialism. Go ahead, reread "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and try to find some air between the state-managed socialized capitalism of the third reich and the state-managed socialized capitalism of the Obama nation.
It's not possible to have a strategic discussion with a five year old, and it's not possible to have an interesting discussion with big ben.
Then leave the board and never come back. Your trolling is ... boring and stupid.
Godwin's Law having been fully breached, I will step away from any F-bombs if you will - no Fa... , Fu.. or ... Falwell.
I'm calling out the romantic movement
not 'profreedom conservatives', if there yet is such a thing!
What part of freedom is letting the government ban medical procedures? Let alone drugs?
What part of freedom is torture? Jesus Christ might have something to say about that, neh?
What part of freedom is the Patriot Act?
What part of freedom is deliberately spreading Anthrax to the people who were preparing to stand against it? [not putting the tinfoil hat on, here, folks]
Doesn't it just drive you mad when people say that bush has prevented all terrorism attacks since 9-11?
or is that just me?
Today I am a Democrat. tommorrow, I hope to not be. Is this too difficult to understand?
What part of freedom
Is not being able to say fuck?
Which part of civility and common sense
is lacking in the Liberal trolls?
It's not a restriction on your 'freedom' to avoid saying 4 letter words in someone elses forum.
It's common courtesy!
Or maybe you don't parse these sentences, so let me try ... It's (*&^(*&^-ing common courtesy!
I dont have a link handy , but there WAS a study done comparing leftwing and rightwing forums on the internet, and they found one startling difference: The level of obscenity on the leftwing boards is far far higher.
That merits a "Why am i not surprised" response.
A lack of civility
Would be calling those who dissent from your opinion "libtards". That is an example of a lack of common courtesy. Yet you seem to have no problem with that one. Care to explain the discrepancy?
Are you one?
If you are not, there is nothing to be worried about.
I wouldn't consider myself one
But that doesn't mean it doesn't decrease the civility of discourse here. Practice what we preach, eh? One who lives in glass houses etc etc.
This site is dedicated to rebuilding the Right, correct? If that is the case, you will have to win over people like myself and RisingTide, who are sympathetic to many of the principles the right has (lowered taxation, more freedom) but have not sided with them for various reasons. Mine are:
1) Incompetence. The shining example is Alberto Gonzalez. If you or I couldn't remember anything we did at our job, and something went south, we'd be fired. He keeps his job amid praise.
2) Hypocrisy. Republicans decry big spenders, and then bring home pork to their own communities to get re-elected. They talk about family values and then cheat/divorce their wives. They talk about freedom but support things like the Patriot Act and the War on Drugs.
3) Culture war. I'm atheist, and I find many more on the right than the left that decry my beliefs as evil. I often hear the phrase "good Christian values", which doesn't sit right with me. Gays, blacks and many other communities are most likely put off by Republicans for different but similiar reasoning.
4) Inability to deal with reality. From stumping for creationism to decrying 'elitism', the GOP of today seems to not want to face facts, as it were. They have quite a few policies that are based not on what works, but on social/moral issues (abstinence-only sex ed comes to mind). Republicans need to get back to basics and supporting programs that work, and cutting out those that don't.
Back to civility
1) Why should I care to win over people who already have drunk so much koolaid they cant see things straight? Or attack conservatives/Republicans etc. over things I know are factually false? Like I had to rebut an anti-Palin smear 2 mins ago that RisingRedTide threw out.
I am sorry but this is a forum, not a restaurant where you can bark at the waiter "Hey, I dont like this plate of GOP, give me something I can eat." and we stepin fetch it. MY cure for the Next Right is not to cater to the left or give up, since they are indeed a threat to our freedom, and it may not be your cure/view. Vive le difference. It not my job to have to agree to your terms is my point.
2) I will be civil to everyone who doesnt descend into troll-like behavior that is designed to disrupt the board. RedTide has basically told several posters to die and throws attacks around freely. I suggest you dont follow his example, and I will try not to get too much mud should I end up wrestling the pig so to speak. I'll try to stay away from calling lib trolls 'tards.
3) Your points of specific concern are 'more like it' - and something that can be discussed civilly, so long as you dont descend into what looks to be the ol' double standard of attacks GOP flaws and ignoring those on the other side. Those get REAL tiresome real quick.
I've discussed some of these on my Travis Monitor blog.
4) Of most interest would be to say/state what your voting history has been and why. Maybe you are a libertarian? Or you voted Democrat? It would be interesting indeed if the Dems are geting libertarian votes, since its an indication of serious GOP missed oppty.
My voting history
Actually, I have not voted before this election, in which I voted Dem for Pres, Senate, and Rep. Before 2006 or so, I felt that either side was pretty much as bad as the other. (Note: I am 26, so I was able to vote as of the year 2000.)
However, after Katrina occurred, I started to read up on politics. I am stationed in Biloxi, MS, and saw firsthand the aftermath. (I was deployed at the time, but came back two weeks later.)
The progress was nearly non-existent in New Orleans. I bought about 300 dollars worth of toys to deliver to a children's hospital during Christmas that year, and I'll never forget what Canal Street looked like. No order, trash strewn about, buildings boarded up, roofs missing, and no one working on it.
After that, three main issues made me vote Democratic. Coercive interrogations, the Patriot Act, and Alberto Gonzalez. The politicization scandal, and the Administration response, was pathetic. From the evidence I've read on coercive interrogations, most of the info is unreliable; also, what's to stop a country from being MORALLY justified now to torture soldiers? Finally, the Patriot Act was another far-too-large government program that I didn't agree with. We're spending who-knows-how-much on data mining, when TARGETTED investigations would save money but also guarantee that trained agents would be working on the most promising cases.
I consider myself 'liberaltarian' right now.
Break it up, you two
Move along.
Gather your thoughts.
Inflamed passions can carry hurtful wounds, but cooler heads will prevail.
That is to say, that, as it stands, the both of you are on the losing end.
Walk it off....
My 'inflamed passions' stopped a few posts ago. This was just a sober analysis of when, how and why I've voted the ways I have.
I will admit that the arguing bored the fvck out of me, and I was unable to complete the thread.
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PC or Mac that is the question. This seems to be the question many consumers are wondering these days. Both PCs and Macs have their strong points as well as their weak points, but when it comes to designing, Mac is the clear winner.
Apple's Macintosh system has been always known as the system of choice for anyone interested in anything to deal with movie editing, graphic design, image editing, and other multimedia forms. One great reason for this is, the software that comes with the computer. When you get a Mac, Apple makes it clear what they want you to do with your machine. They give you many options for you to move forward in a multimedia format. With their iLife software, this makes editing images, movies, and music a breeze. Apple decided they wanted their platform more for "fun" than "work" a long time ago. When designers use a Mac, they generally prefer the experience more than when using a PC for doing the same task. This is because the Apple's interface and OS is targeted towards users who want to design, edit, and have fun. A problem in the past with Apple was that they were not as fast at what they needed to do, because they were not stacked with a good enough processor. Speed is something many designers need, because they are paid by how fast they can or cannot do something. Mac now has Intel chips, so this removes that problem entirely.
When you think of a PC, you generally think of a business computer. Most corporations use PCs over Macs because it works well between other businesses. They cannot only be used for creating pie charts though. PCs and Macs have become more and more alike. PCs have basically the same software available to them as Macs. But as said previously, the experience and how everything is layed on a Mac makes it superior. Now that you thought that I was going to be totally biased towards Mac, I will tell you something good. If you were someone interested in 3D designing, I would then recommend using a PC. This is because most 3D programs have not created versions for the Macintosh yet. The two best 3D design programs in my mind, 3D Studio Max and Maya are not available on the Mac.Â
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For years, in my office, I have used a Mac for desktop publishing and design work (both web and graphic design). In my home, I have done similar work. The difference is, at home I use a PC. I also have the responsibility at home and at work for supporting both Macs and PCs. After reading the article PC vs. Mac for Graphic Designing I felt the need, as a cross-user, to expand a rather simple article. It is easy to proclaim the Mac as winner in this type of contest because it is a claim that has been espoused for years. In truth however, most of the reasons which are normally given are strained and easy.
You will of course assume by the fact that I am writing this article, think that I am a PC troll trying to stir up trouble. So that you can read this in peace, let me assure you that this is not a Mac bashing article. I love both Macs and PCs. The author claims that Macs used to be slower than PCs but now they use Intel chips so they are fast now. The Macs previously used Power PC chips and this chip was by no means slow. There was an image problem because the Mhz number that went along with these chips was lower. Actual processing time for the most part was rarely any slower than Intel chips. This is in fact one of the reasons the Mac did well with the graphic design community in the earlier years, the Power PC chip for a long time did a much better job handling Photoshop rasterizing. Apple switching to the Intel chip nullified their one real hardware benefit that mattered. They could claim differences in the ability of this processor. There were good reasons for switching to the Intel chip - cost, the inability of Motorola and then IBM to keep up the speed increases that Apple needed, and their lack of leverage when negotiating with those same two companies because of the low numbers of systems being sold.
On the other hand, even though the Mac is using off the shelf parts now, they don't allow users to have the same flexibility when upgrading their Mac that PC users often have. Apple does this so that they can control what systems their Mac OS can go on. This does however act as a huge limit on users that want to extend the life of their systems and of course excludes people who want to build a system from scratch. As a user with technical knowledge, this is one of the reasons I use a PC at home, I was able to create the exact system I need for what I do. Whenever those needs change in a significant way, I can change my system so it continues to do what I need.
The Mac however is a very strong choice for the user who doesn't have a strong technical background or the user who doesn't want to deal with this kind of thinking. On its surface it is easier to work with. You can do quite a bit with little knowledge. Then you can do a lot more if you take the time to learn the Unix that the OS is built on. It's the middle ground where the PC excels for a user. If you want to put in some work to learning about the workings of the OS and the hardware, but not quite the effort to run a Unix box, the PC is a very happy medium for designers and non-designers.
Software: Almost every piece of professional design software is now owned by Adobe (I will miss Macromedia). Adobe has very strong support for the PC in all of its software. I have always found the whole Adobe suite to work equally well in Mac and PC land. I do lean towards the Mac for print design however. The main reason for this is font standardization. Since so many graphic designers and printers use Macs and so few use Opentype fonts (which are cross platform) it is just easier to use a Mac so you don't have font conflicts. If you will be delivering a PDF as your final document to a printer and other users aren't using your document it makes no difference from an application standpoint what platform you work on. If you are doing web design, I have generally found Dreamweaver to be a little peppier on my PC and the fonts don't matter a whole lot. I have not done benchmarks on this though and it could be a matter of perception.
What I tried to do in this rebuttal was to just try and move away from the usual talking points. There are good reasons to choose either a PC or Mac for your design work. Most, however, have to do with technical experience and personal preference, for instance a PC does take up more time to maintain and keep safe (but these are just the issues that everyone always brings up). From a speed and software angle there is really very little difference anymore.
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Spicy Italian sausage and broccoli rabe simmer in a flavorful tomato sauce. Served over a mound of creamy polenta, they make a ravishing, rustic Italian meal for a cold winter's night. If you like, pass grated Parmesan at the table.
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- 1 pound(s) broccoli rabe, tough stems removed
- 4 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 1.333 pound(s) hot or mild Italian sausage
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup(s) dry white wine
- 1.50 cup(s) canned crushed tomatoes in thick puree (from a 14-ounce can)
- 1.50 cup(s) canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) dried thyme
- 2.50 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 cup(s) chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) fresh-ground black pepper
- 4.50 cup(s) water
- 1.333 cup(s) coarse or medium cornmeal
- In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the broccoli rabe until tender, about 2 minutes. Drain. Rinse with cold water and drain thoroughly. Cut into 2-inch lengths.
- In a large frying pan, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over moderately high heat. Add the sausage and cook, turning, until browned, about 10 minutes. Remove. When cool enough to handle, cut into slices.
- Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the pan. Reduce the heat to moderately low. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the wine; bring to a simmer. Add the sausage, tomatoes, broth, thyme, and 1 1/4 teaspoons of the salt. Bring to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Add the broccoli rabe, parsley, and pepper to the sauce; bring to a simmer.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, bring the water and the remaining 1 1/4 teaspoons salt to a boil. Add the cornmeal in a slow stream, whisking. Whisk in the remaining 3 tablespoons oil. Reduce the heat and simmer, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, until very thick, about 20 minutes. Serve with the sauce.
- Wine Recommendation: This rustic dish wants a red wine, but the broccoli rabe's bite will combine with tannin to create an unpleasant bitterness. Opt for an Italian barbera; it has minimal tannin.
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Israel are unique in that they are the only international side to have played qualifying matches in several different continental zones. Over the years, the Blue and Whites have been involved in qualifying campaigns in Europe, Africa, Asia and even Oceania. They won the Asian Nations Cup in 1964 but have only managed to qualify for a FIFA World Cup™ on one occasion, achieving the feat back in 1970.
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The key players
Experienced goalkeeper Dudu Aouate spent the best part of a decade in the Spanish top flight, while versatile defender Tal Ben-Haim enjoys a strong reputation in the English Premier League.
The driving force of the team is midfield playmaker Yossi Benayoun, whose range of passing and keen eye for goal make him a constant threat to opposition defences. Benayoun is considered one of Israel's most gifted players and sits comfortably alongside past greats such as Spiegler, Ronny Rosenthal and Eyal Berkovic.
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Best performance in a FIFA competition: FIFA World Cup Mexico 1970 (Group stages)
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The addition of cinnamon to the spicy pork is what really had me curious. I love cinnamon. Scaling up the recipe meant I would need ten cinnamon sticks, (or 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon) – I don't have that kind of cinnamon laying around! I figured I could get away with less since the pork would be in the slow cooker for eight hours instead of on the the stove for just two. I used two tablespoons of ground cinnamon and one whole cinnamon stick.
My only complaint about Mark's recipe is that he leaves you hanging with regard to the quantity of cayenne or red pepper flakes to add. Of course these depend on your taste for heat, but a range would be helpful. I used 1 teaspoon of cayenne for a 5 pound pork butt, and the heat compared to a batch of medium chicken wings. So, unless you like suicide strength hot sauce be conservative.
We loved it! Rubbing the spices onto the pork butt before browning produces a cinnamony crust, while the flavour laden juices permeated deep into the meat keeping it moist and rich. The single teaspoon of cayenne pepper added kick without overpowering the tasty cinnamon.
Now that you've heard the juicy details, would you bring this dish to a pot luck? (or at least devour it if someone else did?)
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8 hours (low)
Yield: 8-10 servings (prepared in a 6.5 quart slow cooker)
Heat oil in pan over medium-high heat.
Trim excess fat from pork and pat dry.
Combine garlic, ginger in a small bowl. Rub the mixture all over the pork. Reserve any remaining rub.
Brown all sides of the pork in the hot skillet. About 4 minutes per side. (This step is optional. If you are in a hurry just place the spice-covered pork into the slow cooker. Note: you will miss out on the crunchy outer layer)
Place inside the slow cooker insert.
Pour rice wine vinegar over the meat. Sprinkle with the remaining spices. Wedge the cinnamon stick where it will get moistened by the juices as the pork cooks.
Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. The meat will be more tender cooked on low.
Remove the cinnamon stick.
Using two forks, pull the pork into chunky pieces.
Serve over rice or with a side of vegetables.


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Kidar Nath Bansal is no "ordinary man."
Presumably, hundreds of thousands more were forced to accept undesirable majors in other subjects because their test scores weren't high enough. And tens of thousands sought admission in private engineering colleges, which, although they continue to mushroom, are mostly substandard due to the kind of regulatory malfeasance that Bansal exposed.
"We have 2,732 engineering colleges at the latest count, up from 1,617 in 2007 and 669 in 2000," said Pawan Agarwal, a senior civil servant and author of "Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future."
Many of their graduates are unemployed — and unemployable, because the engineering colleges they attended paid officials to get approvals and increase seats despite being deficient in infrastructure and faculty requirements. It was a "You pat my back; I'll pat yours" situation, critics like Bansal say.
"The system creates and sustains these bad practices," Bansal said. "The problem is also the parents who send their kids to [poor] engineering schools. So when they graduate these students can't be engineers. This is a societal problem."
Bansal's own problems with AICTE show why.
Bansal's Echelon Institute of Technology started in August 2007 with 240 students (as the regulator requires) and four engineering disciplines. In December 2007, as per the regulator's schedule, he applied for an increase of 60 seats in computer sciences for the next academic year. He got a letter pointing out various "deficiencies" on his campus. Bansal says the issues AICTE raised had already been verified as untrue when his institution first got approval.
When he complained, Bansal says he started getting phone calls, sometimes threatening ones, telling him he knew the "procedure" if he wanted approval to increase the number of students. The "procedure" was to pay the officials $570 per seat, or a total bribe of $34,000, Bansal alleges.
So he sent faxes to the ministry in charge of higher education and called every day asking for a meeting with any ministry official who could help. He mailed detailed dossiers of the various meetings and communications he had had with AICTE officials.
Eventually a bureaucrat in the ministry agreed to meet with him. But that seemed to anger, as well as scare, the AICTE. The regulator denied him permission to increase student intake and denied his routine application for an extension of his license to continue operations. At the same time, though, the AICTE's middlemen dropped their bribe demands from $579 per seat to $340 and then to $270, Bansal alleges.
After three more months of tireless hounding of the education ministry, Bansal got another meeting with a ministry official who also called R.A. Yadav, the regulator's chairman, to the meeting. To avoid trouble Yadav greenlighted Bansal's requests while they were both sitting in the bureaucrat's office, says Bansal. But when he applied for another seat increase in December 2008, AICTE kept his request "pending" until May 23, which was very close to the start of the next academic year, and wrote a letter to the ministry alleging gross misconduct by Bansal's school. When Bansal confronted the AICTE chairman about it, his school was raided the next day.
"By then the ministry had changed," Bansal said, bringing in Kapil Sibal, an energetic reformer who had vowed to root out corruption and overhaul the higher education regulatory system. So Bansal fired off a letter titled, "Shoot the Messenger AICTE Style," to virtually every reputable government official he could think of. Perhaps the title caught the attention of Sibal, who is known to compose satirical poems and ditties of his own, because Bansal was again called to meet an education ministry bureaucrat who expressed surprise that the harassment was continuing.
The next thing Bansal knew, Sibal sent the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation, and Bansal was called to testify.
Today, thanks to the stubborn whistleblower, Yadav is no longer chairman and the AICTE and other regulators are expected to be subsumed by an overarching new commission. Sibal has already approved a law — expected to be passed soon — targeting mainly the private engineering and medical education sectors, a majority of which are renowned here for their malpractices. The drastic new law will punish Indian college officials who demand bribes with a fine of up to $106,400 and a jail sentence of up to 10 years.
"I was so surprised. It was a big thrill that the democratic system was finally no match for powerful people like the AICTE," the "ordinary man" Bansal said. "Long live my democracy."


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I was just curious if there is a correlation between maternal age and gender makeup. It seems to me that most of the families I know IRL that have all one gender had their children in their 20s, whereas 'older' mom's who conceived most of their children in their 30s are more likely to have mixed gender. This is just something I have noticed in my area. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the same thing and curious if it holds true here as well.
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I think it's interesting that had you stopped, you would have fit into my little theory quite well :)
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My first two boys were in my 20s and my last two boys were conceived in my 30s .. so it's 50/50 for me.
I voted for other. Lol
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In my circle of friends, we are all in our 30's and all had boys, save for my DD. My sister was 32 when she had her DS.
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I don't have all one gender, but thought I'd throw out that I had a boy and girl 18 mos apart in my twenties, and then a boy and girl in my thirties. I really think gender is just ultimately 50/50 anyway you look at it.
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I have heard that the chances of conceiving a girl increase as both parents get older....that would ring true for us!
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Berbatov sheds that 30m load
Dimitar Berbatov is Manchester United's man of the moment. The Bulgarian has surged from being labelled a £30.75m misfit to maestro with seven goals from six starts this season. The icing on the cake came last Sunday with his hat-trick against Liverpool, highlighted by his wonderfully executed overhead kick for his second in front of the Stretford End. Two years after his club record switch from Tottenham to the Reds the 29-year-old has finally ditched the flop' label his critics had pinned on him. But Berbatov admits becoming United's most expensive player in history in August 2008 was a huge burden on his shoulders and one that he's only just managed to shed. You try not to think about it (the record fee) but sometimes you just can't help it, said the striker. You start thinking a lot of money' and now what's going to happen if you don't prove good enough for that amount of money, you don't score enough goals. They are normal things that a lot of people can think of. They're always going through my mind and sometimes it can be bad for your concentration and your skills because it distracts you from the main goal I have just to play and enjoy my football. Sometimes you think you haven't done enough for the team and you start thinking, what did I do wrong?' I can do better. I was better in some games in the past. I started to underestimate my skill, which was no good because I know what I can do. You have periods like this in every player's career. The main thing is to learn and stay strong in those moments. In the end I just say, relax, play.' You're playing for the biggest club in the world and that's it nobody can say anything else. Berbatov's slow start to his Old Trafford career that saw him score 14 goals in his debut term and 12 last season made him the target for the doubters. He split Reds fans as well as the media. You try not to give too much attention to that and the criticism because it's going to be bad for you, he added. Everybody's free to say whatever they want. But nobody can take my smile away. I play for Manchester United and that was my main goal. While Berbatov was under the spotlight for his goal contribution and languid body language, his artistry was never in question. But he says his creative side is more important than his finishing. I have changed through the years. I enjoy creating things, he added. Obviously I am a striker. People expect me to score many goals. But sometimes it is good to create a goal for someone. That makes me very happy and gives me a lot of pleasure. Sometimes the difficult pass, the pass no-one else can see, when you make it happen, it is more important than scoring the goal. It gives you a bigger feeling. Not everyone feels like this. I have always liked to play with the ball. You have some strikers who wait for one chance in the whole of the game. Then they score. I am not like this. Obviously there are games when you stand around doing nothing all game and in the end, the ball hits you on the knee and goes in the net. But that doesn't make me feel happy. I need to feel the ball at my feet. I need to organise things and make things happen. That is what makes me feel like a player. There is a difference between a football player and a goalscorer. For me it is the whole package. I like to play with clever players. Some players have the whole vision. Without looking left or right they know where they play the ball. I like these kinds of players. I try to be like this. It is all about imagination on the pitch. I just try to enjoy myself. Will Berbatov's form last? Have your say.
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