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31 May 09

Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths | McClatchy

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28 May 09

The GOP's Feigned Outrage - WSJ.com

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GOP hypocrisy inequality reactionary

Those who followed news coverage of the "tea party" protests last month will recall that one target of the partiers' ire was the TARP bailout of the banking system -- a policy of the Bush administration that President Obama has carried on.
A Republican who wants to fight Wall Street! A Bush official who thinks protesting Bush policies is "great"! Contemplating these curiosities, we begin to realize how easy it has been for conservatives to swing back into full-throated opposition only months after their cataclysmic defeat. And also to understand why the obituaries for the GOP might be just a tad premature.
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- What really dazzles the observer, though, is conservatives' fury over things for which they are themselves responsible.
- Psychotherapists might call this "projection," and something similar pervades the essay the remarkable Mr. Gingrich published only two days later in the Washington Post. Here the former speaker can be found calling for a populist revolt in the "great tradition of political movements rising against arrogant, corrupt elites."
  
  A healthy sentiment, to be sure, except for the fact that "elites" are exactly what decades of conservative rule gave us by unleashing the banks, smashing the unions, and funneling the economy's gains into the hands of the rich.
- Even so, rule by lobbyists is a subject Mr. Gingrich should know well. It was while he was House speaker, for example, that his No. 3, Tom DeLay, launched the famous "K Street Strategy," which sought to make Gucci Gulch the exclusive preserve of the Republican Party.
- It was Mr. Gingrich's own beloved House freshmen of 1994, the last bunch of conservative populists to come down the pike, who made the Republican Revolution into a fundraising bonanza. And it was public outrage over the conspicuous purchase of government favors by the moneyed that led to the Democratic triumphs of 2006 and 2008.
- In fact, deindustrialization also occurred all across the Midwest. As it ground on through the Reagan years and the '90s, it was the investor class who called the shots, not the hirelings of organized labor.
- In his much-discussed speech last Thursday, Mr. Cheney intoned, "We hear from some quarters nothing but feigned outrage based on a false narrative." And so we do: A form of protest that persistently misses the point, a type of populism that only empowers the elite, and a brand of idealism that cohabits comfortably with corruption.

24 May 09

A Challenge to the Free Market - The New York Review of Books

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Robert Reich's Blog: Why Republicans Won't Support the Stimulus

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21 May 09

Annals of Law: No More Mr. Nice Guy: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

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19 May 09

Inside the Obama-Notre Dame Debate

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16 May 09

Conservatives Map Strategies on Court Fight - NYTimes.com

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Obama’s Budget Would Push U.S. into Socialism

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12 May 09

Enemies of creationism may be hindering science teachers | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | The Guardian

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11 May 09

It's not bankers Labour is watching, it's you | Business | The Guardian

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09 May 09

Creationism rears its head in Texas schools | Susan McCarthy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

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Unhappiness was more than statewide. Texas is hugely influential in textbook publishing, not just because it buys books for 4.5 million kids. It's one of 20-odd "adoption states", which compile lists of approved books. Publishers want their books on these lists, so they heed state standards. Texas spends $500m a year on approved textbooks.

05 May 09