Monday, January 7, 2013

Conservative News


If you had any doubts that the conservative base was a bunch of rubes being bilked of their bucks, and losing their minds, too, this will disabuse you of them.

Salon
The conservative movement is still an elaborate moneymaking venture
Alex Parenne


Is the conservative base a bunch of WASP's fearful of losing power. One of them says, yes, and he finally woke up to it.
AlterNet
America's White Male Problem
Frank Schaeffer


The new iteration of the Heritage Foundation as a conservative think tank led by Jim DeMint and David Addington

The Huffington Post
Jim DeMint And David Addington, Former Dick Cheney Aide, Poised To Make Heritage Relevant Again
John Ward

So expect to be hearing a lot more about "free enterprise, limited government, low taxes, traditional American values, and a strong military" aka economic neoliberalism, and political neo-conservatism, neo-imperialism, and neo-colonialism.

4 comments:

Joe said...

You can rag on and denigrate these people all day long (and I might even agree with you at times,) but you gotta admit that George W Bush was the closest MMT guy we've had in the White House in over a generation; and it was the evangelical right that helped get him elected.

Tom Hickey said...

Yeah, and how they hate W now. He is persona non grata among them, and even the Bush name is still poison.

Ignacio said...

He used MMT to benefit mostly the wealthy and the military-industrial complex and create a housing & banking bubble, not good example.

dave said...

he started 2 wars and didnt raise a penny to pay for them in taxes, then wants to privatize ss, yeah he is a fucking genius. i believe roger mitchel is correct, they are evil.