Comments on: Mischief ahead http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/10/04/mischief-ahead/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/10/04/mischief-ahead/#comment-301944 gs Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:09:34 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/10/04/mischief-ahead/#comment-301944 The economic confusion of the Republican electorate is not surprising in view of the impressions given by their postReagan leadership: 1. George "Read My Lips" Bush raised taxes into a softening economy. 2. During the Contract Republicans' bungled budget showdown with Bill Clinton, statements were ascribed to them to the effect that it would be no big deal if the US missed a payment or two on the national debt. 3. During the early Bush 43 administration, "Republican sources" were quoted as saying that Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. (Reagan himself <a href="http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/farewell.asp" rel="nofollow">explicitly disavowed</a> that: <i>I've been asked if I have any regrets. Well, I do. The deficit is one. I've been talking a great deal about that lately, but tonight isn't for arguments. And I'm going to hold my tongue.</i>) 4. Et cetera. Middle American Republicans may be feeling the ground shift underneath their feet in ways they do not understand. They might be conflating illegal immigration and legitimate globalization. Will our solomonic political class revert to protectionism while keeping illegal immigration unchecked? The economic confusion of the Republican electorate is not surprising in view of the impressions given by their postReagan leadership:

1. George “Read My Lips” Bush raised taxes into a softening economy.
2. During the Contract Republicans’ bungled budget showdown with Bill Clinton, statements were ascribed to them to the effect that it would be no big deal if the US missed a payment or two on the national debt.
3. During the early Bush 43 administration, “Republican sources” were quoted as saying that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter. (Reagan himself explicitly disavowed that: I’ve been asked if I have any regrets. Well, I do. The deficit is one. I’ve been talking a great deal about that lately, but tonight isn’t for arguments. And I’m going to hold my tongue.)
4. Et cetera.

Middle American Republicans may be feeling the ground shift underneath their feet in ways they do not understand. They might be conflating illegal immigration and legitimate globalization.

Will our solomonic political class revert to protectionism while keeping illegal immigration unchecked?

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