February 13, 2013

Paint meet corner.

By Glenn
Topics:
conservatism
Leadership
LIberalism

“As long as Republicans remain tethered to reflexive government-is-bad rhetoric, they will struggle to articulate a positive role government can play in people’s lives.”

How do you save Social Security and Medicare if you believe they are evil?

How do you save public education if you believe it is evil?

How do you save public roads and freeways from private toll roads if you believe government is evil?

You either have to step on the paint and look like an idiot to get out of the corner, or you can stay in the corner and look like a fool.

***update**** Krugman adds his words of wisdom.

Faced with overwhelming, catastrophic evidence that their faith in unregulated financial markets was wrong, they have responded by rewriting history to defend their prejudices.

This strikes me as a bigger deal than whether Rubio slurped his water; he and his party are now committed to the belief that their pre-crisis doctrine was perfect, that there are no lessons from the worst financial crisis in three generations except that we should have even less regulation. And given another shot at power, they’ll test that thesis by giving the bankers a chance to do it all over again.

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