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America: the time has come to roll back liberalism.
This was the best week for conservatism in modern memory. On Tuesday, Scott Brown won a tremendous victory for the Republican Party in his Massachusetts Senate race. On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision more important to the Constitution than any it has handed down in decades.
The case, entitled Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, dealt with Citizens United's "Hillary: The Movie," a 2008 documentary highly critical of the then-Democratic presidential candidate. The Federal Election Commission saw the documentary as a political advertisement in violation of...
It's Time to 'Roll Back' Liberalism
Are you kidding? It was Carter that signed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control of 1980. It was Clinton that, correctly, signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. It was Clinton, at the behest of Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, who refused to allow his head at the CFTC, Brooksley Born, to regulate derivatives as she wished.
Lady, the financial crisis was brought about chiefly because of the disastrous CRA & the monetary policies of Greenspan/Bernanke, whose cheap money/easy credit policy led to risk taking on the part of borrowers.
As for rolling back programs, I agree that we should roll back anything. We need to abolish ALL entitlement,...