At 03:04 PM 2/28/01 -0800, Kristin wrote:
>I've been told by a British acquaintance that Gray Davis (CA gov) is mor
>socialistic than Tony Blair; that the old line Labour party "big
>government" type thing is out of fashion in Britain; that George Bush's
>speech sounded like something that could have come from "New Labour!"
Actually, on the PBS coverage of the Broadcast they outright compared it to
Blair's famous "Third Way" Agenda.
Bush, Clinton, and Blair are all very similar in that they have
aggressively sought to proclaim themselves as maker's of a synthesis
between left and right. I think this is inevitable as both American and
British societies continue to reach a very broad consensus about exactly
how they should be governed.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
