I completely agree. And I'm not even sure what's right or wrong about the bill because I fail at economics bigtime.
Still, I'm petty enough that while it's happening I'll be making a tiny fist-in-the-air gesture at the fact that the Republicans finally had the guts to turn against one of their own (one of their own who isn't Lincoln Chafee, that is).
True Republicans (not the free-spending Bush repubs) turned against a government-sponsored bailout of private industry. It was the principle that galled them (as it did me). Such intervention goes against the very fiber of what it is to be an economically conservative Republican; that is, small government, low tax, and as little intervention in a free market society as possible. Big government, and a more interposing ideology is more typically the world of the Democrat.
Such intervention goes against the very fiber of what it is to be an economically conservative Republican; that is, small government, low tax, and as little intervention in a free market society as possible
I don't hold to a lot of their views on a lot of things, but damn, I was PROUD of them. I might not agree with them, but they're holding to their principles and don't seem to be playing politics. Of course, I'm a big fat idealist and my view could be totally rose-coloured. It's interesting that a lot of people on the Left are against the bill, also. This whole clusterfuck goes way beyond party lines.
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Date: 2008-09-29 09:52 pm (UTC)Still, I'm petty enough that while it's happening I'll be making a tiny fist-in-the-air gesture at the fact that the Republicans finally had the guts to turn against one of their own (one of their own who isn't Lincoln Chafee, that is).
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Date: 2008-09-29 10:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-29 10:34 pm (UTC)I don't hold to a lot of their views on a lot of things, but damn, I was PROUD of them. I might not agree with them, but they're holding to their principles and don't seem to be playing politics. Of course, I'm a big fat idealist and my view could be totally rose-coloured. It's interesting that a lot of people on the Left are against the bill, also. This whole clusterfuck goes way beyond party lines.