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30 March 2005 - 2:54 pm
My TiVo-like device failed to record Veronica Mars last night and my anger at that plus a very stuffy bedroom kept me from getting a lot of sleep last night. So today I am tired. And a bit grouchy.
In more pleasant news, the NY Times is reporting signs of revival in downtown St. Louis and John Danforth has an amazing editorial in the Times about the GOP's divergence from "conservative" values and their switch to being the political arm of the Christian conservatives. Strong words from an Episcopal minister. The crux of his argument can be summed up by the following two paragraphs, but you really ought to read the entire thing.
During the 18 years I served in the Senate, Republicans often disagreed with each other. But there was much that held us together. We believed in limited government, in keeping light the burden of taxation and regulation. We encouraged the private sector, so that a free economy might thrive. We believed that judges should interpret the law, not legislate. We were internationalists who supported an engaged foreign policy, a strong national defense and free trade. These were principles shared by virtually all Republicans.But in recent times, we Republicans have allowed this shared agenda to become secondary to the agenda of Christian conservatives. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.
Posted by on 30 March 2005 at 2:41 PM
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Thanks for the articles, they were both good. It's kind of funny, when Danforth writes, "We believed in limited government, in keeping light the burden of taxation and regulation. We encouraged the private sector, so that a free economy might thrive. We believed that judges should interpret the law, not legislate. We were internationalists who supported an engaged foreign policy, a strong national defense and free trade," it makes me want to be a Republican of old, and makes me wonder what I was objecting to a decade ago.
Posted by Charlie on 30 March 2005 - 5:29 PM
Wow, that's a very encouraging sign. It takes someone like Danforth to say such a thing and not get labeled an instrument of the devil.
Posted by rkc on 30 March 2005 - 9:10 PM