I think we can exclude anything to do with faith, since at the federal level the Republicans have advanced zero legislation on that front going back to 1980 at least. (Roe is a nice wedge issue, but it hasn't gone anywhere and isn't going anywhere.) On the economic side, tax cuts for the most affluent have given more money to already liquid people, so there's no stimulation of the economy (they aren't buying more, and their investments haven't exactly resulted in a wave of employment, except maybe in China). On the military side, I notice lots of ordinary Americans coming home in body bags, so I guess it's not that. For country club Republicans, who've gotten lower taxes and have had rising income (while others' incomes have remained stagnant) and who can keep their children in expensive colleges and away from the front, things are probably pretty good. But that's just a tiny fraction. What about ordinary Americans?
Monday, November 8, 2010
On Meghan McCain's Allegations of Palin Drama in the Campaign, August 31, 2010
What I personally would like to know is not what Ms McCain thinks of Ms Palin, but the answer to the following fill-in-the-blank question: "The benefit of the Republican policy agenda for ordinary working people is ____________________."
I think we can exclude anything to do with faith, since at the federal level the Republicans have advanced zero legislation on that front going back to 1980 at least. (Roe is a nice wedge issue, but it hasn't gone anywhere and isn't going anywhere.) On the economic side, tax cuts for the most affluent have given more money to already liquid people, so there's no stimulation of the economy (they aren't buying more, and their investments haven't exactly resulted in a wave of employment, except maybe in China). On the military side, I notice lots of ordinary Americans coming home in body bags, so I guess it's not that. For country club Republicans, who've gotten lower taxes and have had rising income (while others' incomes have remained stagnant) and who can keep their children in expensive colleges and away from the front, things are probably pretty good. But that's just a tiny fraction. What about ordinary Americans?
I think we can exclude anything to do with faith, since at the federal level the Republicans have advanced zero legislation on that front going back to 1980 at least. (Roe is a nice wedge issue, but it hasn't gone anywhere and isn't going anywhere.) On the economic side, tax cuts for the most affluent have given more money to already liquid people, so there's no stimulation of the economy (they aren't buying more, and their investments haven't exactly resulted in a wave of employment, except maybe in China). On the military side, I notice lots of ordinary Americans coming home in body bags, so I guess it's not that. For country club Republicans, who've gotten lower taxes and have had rising income (while others' incomes have remained stagnant) and who can keep their children in expensive colleges and away from the front, things are probably pretty good. But that's just a tiny fraction. What about ordinary Americans?
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