...
Like everyone else living and working in a downsized world, busy weeks combined with time off take their toll ￢ﾀﾦ
I feel compelled to post on a recent column on the need for bringing together the conservative value of personality responsibility together with the progressive value of collective responsibility. Emails continue to trickle in about it.
Among them is a letter from Dan, a law student from Canton:
￢ﾀﾜThe current Republican Party leadership is anything but libertarian,￢ﾀﾝ Dan writes.
￢ﾀﾜFrom the war in Iraq to the Bush Administration's Medicare plan, the present Republican Party has presided over one of the largest and most costly expansion of government in the history of our nation ￢ﾀﾦ
He added: ￢ﾀﾜLibertarians were against the war in Iraq and were more consistently so than any so called "Progressive" politician.￢ﾀﾝ
Dan speaks to one of the great ironies of the Iraq war.
True, many grassroots libertarians were against it.
At the national policy level, however, the so-called neo-cons ￢ﾀﾓ- with strong strains of libertarianism ￢ﾀﾓ were the most prominent advocates for the war.
They continue to be.
Perhaps they should simply be called ￢ﾀﾜanti-government Neo-cons,￢ﾀﾝ though I￢ﾀﾙm not sure that would reflect the ideology for which they stand, either.
Such neo-cons have aggressively lobbied, even demanded, for huge spending increases on defense to spend on Iraq a...
Read more...