I suppose the rhetorical function of this sort of right-wing rhetoric about "Europeanizing" America or a "social democratic" model is to get progressive to swiftly disavow any ambitions of changing the country in a serious way.
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And you sometimes do see him cosigning these kind of manifestos....
If you [are] genuinely interested in Russian democracy, you don't crowd the US-Russian bilateral relationship with counterproductive hostility.
Obviously, given those kind of sentiments from even very hawkish and anti-Arab American Jews, sensible Israelis are going to wonder about the possible impact of the Liebermanification of their national security posture on U.S. public opinion.
The other thing I've noticed about this, however, has been the sad, albeit understandable, tendency of these kind of media outlets to respond to the fact that their old gurus all turned out to be full of shit by attempting to anoint some "new gurus."...
He argued that risk models were inherently flawed; they systematically neglected the possibility of blowups and then were used to argue that investments strategies based on the impossibility of a blowup were safe.
When you see conservative complaining that the stimulus bill is too expensive and won't be fast-acting enough, keep in mind that had they not blocked stimulus last year on the grounds that it was too slow and expensive, we probably wouldn't be in a position today where we need such a large fiscal expansion.
Editor's note: Matt's made this mistake before.
I'm skeptical of the merits of these scheme at any price, but at $4 trillion surely it's time to canvass alternatives in the most thorough way possible.
It's not like Matt to miss an opportunity to use a pretentious Latin pluralization. I hope everything's okay.
In my admittedly brief experience talking to him, his inability to grasp the basic contours of policy question was obvious and overwhelming.
Would it have been so hard for conservative to wait until tonight when we have an actual CBO analysis of the stimulus plan to work with?
The ability to call early elections when incumbents have been discredited is one of the strengths of these kind of systems of government, but you may as well use the power to actually avoid America-style "months of drifting aimlessly."
More generally, while I'm obviously not a hard-core free marketers, it does make sense to consider a free market position our default position.
Once again, from reading this homages to the genius of Bush-era counterterrorism you would never know that an order of magnitude more Americans were killed by transnational Islamist terrorists under George W. Bush's watch than under all previous presidents combined.
Issues such as air pollutions and ocean acidification weren't major topics of concern during the high tide of classical liberalism.
In particular, I do believe that it would be a good idea to make these kind of investments.
