You all are hilarious ! ^^^ CB: Sorry, I didn' mean Marvin and Jim D. I copied their comments as sensible.
Marvin Gandall writes: > ... My sense, however, is that the > libertarian Republican intellectuals and Palin's paleo base, are currently > on the defensive. How can it be otherwise not be when the population is > desperately turning to the government for support? A measure of this, IMO, > is that the congressional Republicans almost certainly would have > capitulated - Republican "principles" and the grumbling of the party's right > wing be damned - if the Democrats had called their bluff and blamed them for > holding up the "rescue" package in the event of a filibuster. But the > anxious Obama administration is desperate not to take sole responsibility > for failed economic recovery programs which might cost them dearly in 2010. > Maybe it is coming round to seeing it has no choice. If there is no > recovery, the Republican right and forces even farther to the right will be > the beneficiaries. That's true, but BHO's big-money supporters also lean against a more aggressive approach. I'd guess that they are satisfied with having a president who's more articulate, clearly more sane, etc. and who's in favor of a woman's right to choose and more in favor of gay rights, etc. than Dubya was. They likely won't be pushed to accept or lobby for a more aggressive approach until the financial/economic crisis gets worse or there are mass demonstrations in the streets or something like that. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
