The Tarp decision was a hasty one and could have been tweaked,but the opportunity for political cover was to tempting and the democrats and republicans both took advantage.... The difference was the democrats were able to blame Bush and it gave them the election,not withstanding that GOP candidate was weak....This nation needs a business man at the helm as well as experienced business people running the affairs of state...
It's hard for a lot of people, particularly on the right, to recognize that the conservative movement's problems are mostly problems of success. The Republican Party's problems are much more recognizable as the problems of failure, including the failure to recognize the limits of that movement's success.
American conservatism began as a kind of intellectual hobbyist's group with little hope of changing the broader society. Albert Jay Nock, the cape-wearing libertarian intellectual -- he called himself a "philosophical anarchist" -- who inspired a very young William F. Buckley Jr., argued that political change was impossible because the masses were rubes,...
We don't need a business man. We need a no-compromise constitutionalist.