Norquist is a one-trick pony, though a well-funded one-trick pony--not by popular contributions, of course, but by the usual suspects, the Koch Brothers and their like. Talk about leverage…
I too worry about the institutions that are being cemented into place. We can hope for a pendulum swing, but that's a thin reed. On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 1/2/13 10:55 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> Dear Friammers and Kitcheners, >> >> These websites caught my attention, and I think they ought to catch yours. >> >> http://www.dsac.gov/Pages/index.aspx >> >> http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html >> >> There is a danger that Obama, because he is a centrist, will cement in place >> institutions that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Where >> is Frank Church when we need him? >> > Conversely, I saw this on CNN last night.. > > http://www.mediaite.com/tv/grover-norquist-voting-for-senate-fiscal-cliff-compromise-technically-not-a-violation-of-the-tax-pledge/ > > "Cooper brought up military spending, to which Norquist agreed that the GOP > needs to look at the Pentagon budget with a fine-toothed comb, quipping that > we should still at least have a military strong enough to beat back a > potential Canadian invasion." > > I love it. Now this guy wants to compel the conservatives to be stingy about > defense spending too! > Perhaps the Obama administration is getting too centrist because the > Republicans can't figure out any kind of self-consistent identity. > > Marcus > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com "Bounded Rationality," by Pamela McCorduck, the second novel in the series, Santa Fe Stories, Sunstone Press, is now available both as ink-on-paper and as an e-book. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen
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