Comments on: Meeting Dick Morris

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:34:35 +0000

Jack…

What a strange few weeks,do you think Obama can go all the way?…

By: infidel308

infidel308 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:31:49 +0000

Hmmm… I can comment on this article, but not the current one.
Site looks good though.

By: Micky 2

Micky 2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:02:45 +0000

If you cant think of one success story from the neocons its truly not a matter of percents. In regards to brain cells it would be a negative result of 0%.
If you actually applied the term “neo conservative” in its proper context to the past political landscape in the last 30 or so years it is actually responsable for a ton of success stories.
But this 100% failure you apply to neo conservative movements and its 100% lack of successes falls into the realm of those who (like you) will reject anything connected to it out of unwavering biased hatred.
Its no different than that delusional claim that everything Bush has done has failed.
Its ludicrous and childish.

By: Jersey McJones

Jersey McJones — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:23:11 +0000

Well, you caught a little of my sarcasm there, Micky, but I stand by what I said. I can’t think of any success stories from the neoconservative movement. It’s not a matter of percents, it’s a matter of positive results of cost/benefit analyses.

JMJ

By: Micky 2

Micky 2 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:06:01 +0000

When his term is over you can accuratley use the word unprecedented.
Carter has preceded as the biggest failure so far.
I dont know which institutions you are talking about but the private sector has almost always been more efficient at anything.
Unmitigated ? yea right. 100% failure in every case ?
Failure makes you a neocon ? Thats rich.
BDS to the max bro.

By: Jersey McJones

Jersey McJones — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:04:14 +0000

jweaver, when you look at Bush’s record on regulations for example - pretty much every agency, from the FDA, to the USDA, the FTC, the CFTC, the MSHA, and on and on and on - we have a record of extreme conservative laizzez faire governence and it’s been an unmitigated distaster in every single case. As for his “liberal” programs, most all have been nothing more than give-aways to GOP-friendly industries and contractors. And speaking of contractors, the conservative privatization movement, which has also been a complete and total failure, we now have more private contracts on the public dole than ever before and they are far more expensive and far less effective than the public institutions they replaced or created in extant.

Bush is a neocon. His historically unpecedented failure as a president is all the proof you need.

JMJ

By: Jim-Rose

Jim-Rose — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:13:19 +0000

New site looks great!

By: jweaver

jweaver — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:57:43 +0000

Now Bush gives a Presidential medal of Freedom to Socialist Donna Shalala - Yeah, he is the King of Conservatives…

By: JLR

JLR — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:44:15 +0000

Eric, sounds like you had a fine time hobnobbing with Morris, et.al. in the slums of Santa Barbara. Couldn’t you find a decent venue?

Serious now: Watching Dick Morris on Fox during the late unpleasantness between Hillary and Obama, I gained a new respect for him.

Great post.

By: thepoliticaltipster

thepoliticaltipster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:31 +0000

Eric,

I do have to disagree with you about McCain running to the centre. It is obvious that the attempt to run on a hard right tax cutting agenda isn’t working, and more importantly is something that McCain doesn’t believe in. In reality McCain is a right of centre populist who believes in free trade, school vouchers and attacking wasteful spending but also believes in regulatory reform, global warming, expanding access to health care and is worried about inequality. He also supports issues such immigration reform, energy independence and balanced budgets which are neither right nor left. Just as his best moment on foreign policy came when he directly confronted Ron Paul, his best two domestic policy moments came when he attacked Romney (and implicitly Giuliani) over the ‘profit not patriotism’ line and Huckabee over his regressive tax plan.

The Democratic lead on economic issues and their lead in the generic ballot means that there is simply no popular appetite for further economic conservatism. Obviously, Dick Morris is the last person who should be giving policy advice and his stuff about oil speculators and companies is simply demagogic nonsense. However, McCain could bring on board people like Marshall Whitman and Irwin Seltzer who could help him move to the centre while still remaining to the right of Obama. This will probably mean touting the fact that his healthcare plan means a tax credit for even non taxpaying families and talking about his battle for a patients bill of rights and his role in trying to reform corporate governance. After all, if the base already considers him, in Dean Barnett’s words, ‘a Scoop Jackson Democrat living under the Republican “big tent.”’, (or a socially conservative version of Tony Blair) then he might as well get the electoral benefits that come with such a designation.