Comments on: The framework is dead. Long live the framework! http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/03/29/the-framework-is-dead-long-live-the-framework/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/03/29/the-framework-is-dead-long-live-the-framework/#comment-302878 gs Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:14:17 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/03/29/the-framework-is-dead-long-live-the-framework/#comment-302878 From staghounds' second point: <i>The utter failure of the Republicans...has profoundly dispirited the country.</i> Absolutely. The finger of blame points primarily toward the GOP and squarely at George Bush who, rather than rectifying his party's dysfunction, became its enabler and amplifier. From Ceaser's Weekly Standard article:<blockquote>Since Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency 28 years ago, all of the presidential elections have been fought within the same ideological framework.</blockquote>He fails to mention that Read-My-Lips Bush flouted that framework after using it to get elected, and that his son is worse. Presumably conservative thinkers are less likely to be swaddled by academic tenure than their liberal counterparts. I wonder whether many conservative intellectuals are so dependent on the Republican establishment for their livelihood that they ignore the obvious. (<a href="http://main.pajamasmedia.com/xpress/victordavishanson/2008/03/26/ten_things_a_candidate_might_p.php" rel="nofollow">Victor Davis Hanson</a> has taken a step in the right direction.) From staghounds’ second point: The utter failure of the Republicans…has profoundly dispirited the country. Absolutely. The finger of blame points primarily toward the GOP and squarely at George Bush who, rather than rectifying his party’s dysfunction, became its enabler and amplifier.

From Ceaser’s Weekly Standard article:

Since Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency 28 years ago, all of the presidential elections have been fought within the same ideological framework.

He fails to mention that Read-My-Lips Bush flouted that framework after using it to get elected, and that his son is worse.

Presumably conservative thinkers are less likely to be swaddled by academic tenure than their liberal counterparts. I wonder whether many conservative intellectuals are so dependent on the Republican establishment for their livelihood that they ignore the obvious. (Victor Davis Hanson has taken a step in the right direction.)

]]> By: staghounds http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/03/29/the-framework-is-dead-long-live-the-framework/#comment-302872 staghounds Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:10:33 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/03/29/the-framework-is-dead-long-live-the-framework/#comment-302872 1. Barone is wrong. He considers "the 60s" as the media legend 60s, Woodstock and riots. But most Americans spent "the Sixties" NOT going to Woodstock and rioting. I'd submit that more Americans spent more of the 1960s in uniform than in college, in Vietnam than protesting the war, and working for a living than administering government welfare programs. The journalists' 60s is the one that gets the press- because that's the one they remember, and to advantage. The people who worked at building and defending America have to resent that the symbol of the time of their youth is a dope smoking, layabout hippie. The Democrats tried to resonate with that generation with Sen. Kerry, and it didn't work so well. 2. Mr. Barone fails to note a very important view everyone seems to share. Despite their rhetoric, both parties will use power as a patronage trough to feed themselves and in the process aggrandise the power of the State. The utter failure of the Republicans to make the slightest change, despite years of saying that was their goal, has profoundly dispirited the country. To the point where people vote for Obama, who promises "change" without specifics. We're turning into Britons- "No matter who wins the election, the Government always gets in." 1. Barone is wrong. He considers “the 60s” as the media legend 60s, Woodstock and riots. But most Americans spent “the Sixties” NOT going to Woodstock and rioting. I’d submit that more Americans spent more of the 1960s in uniform than in college, in Vietnam than protesting the war, and working for a living than administering government welfare programs. The journalists’ 60s is the one that gets the press- because that’s the one they remember, and to advantage. The people who worked at building and defending America have to resent that the symbol of the time of their youth is a dope smoking, layabout hippie.

The Democrats tried to resonate with that generation with Sen. Kerry, and it didn’t work so well.

2. Mr. Barone fails to note a very important view everyone seems to share. Despite their rhetoric, both parties will use power as a patronage trough to feed themselves and in the process aggrandise the power of the State. The utter failure of the Republicans to make the slightest change, despite years of saying that was their goal, has profoundly dispirited the country. To the point where people vote for Obama, who promises “change” without specifics.

We’re turning into Britons- “No matter who wins the election, the Government always gets in.”

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