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[unforth]

Normally, I'm all about compromise, and understanding the other guys point of view if I possibly can, but if this quote is accurate, all I can say is that the Republicans in question must live on a different planet. Republicans, for their part, interpreted their defeats [in the 2006 and 2008 elections] as a sign that they were not conservative enough in opposing spending and pushing tax cuts. From this analysis piece on how bad the partisanship problem is.

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[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

That's not shocking news; there's been lots of stuff about the GOP veering to the right. I've posted a bunch of links about it. :) They figure Bush wasn't very small-government conservative, with his deficits and initiation of the bailout and not enough tax cuts (no tax cuts are ever enough), and all the House GOP moderates got kicked out in the past two elections, so what's left are the hardcore.

(Of course, what they can't explain is why anyone should *believe* the GOP would shrink government, after failing to do so from 1980 on, even if one thought this were a good thing.)

And yeah, bipartisan economic policy is hard to make sensible when one party weakly follows sound macroeconomics and the other party follows what GHWBush called "voodoo economics".

[unforth.livejournal.com]

It just makes me so sad...it doesn't have to be this way...