Conservatism's Third Failure--Article by Robert Kuttner

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Conservatism's third failure
By Robert Kuttner | April 14, 2007
THREE TIMES in my political adulthood, we have seen the exhaustion of a conservative ideology and presidency. Under Presidents Nixon and Bush II, the ingredients were corruption, corporate excess, and overreach of presidential power. During the 12 years of Reagan and Bush I, the hallmark was the failure of conservative economics.
And twice, the electorate ousted Republicans only to get centrist Democrats, who ran more competent administrations but did little to redress the structure of financial inequality in America.
Now, the third era of conservative Republican rule is collapsing -- with the most spectacular mélange of overreach, incompetence, economic distress, and sheer corruption of all. But who, and what, will succeed Bush? The forces of privilege and inequality are now so deeply entrenched in America that it will take a Democratic successor at least as bold as FDR or LBJ to change course

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/2007/04/conservatisms-third-failure.html

[chaska]

1. looks interesting - bookmarked for later.

[ToeBot]

2. I wrote a paper for an economics class based on some articles penned by Robert Kuttner...

The professor singled it out and spent half a class period berating the concepts Kuttner presented and Kuttner himself. After that, I've always paid close attention of most everything Mr. Kuttner has to say. (And I still got an A, as much as I'm sure it pained the Reaganite bastard to give it to me.)

[AlinPA]

3. THey still have great influence, re: Krugman's article on the stocking of

governmnent jobs of influence with Robertson's school graduates. I see no evidence of that part of the right wing slowing down.

[Democrats_win]

4. He explains our economic problems well. The rich will never accept changing the inequalities.

A top national priority should be fixing the inequalities and THEN establishing a fairer more ethical econmic system. Yet the wealthy will walk 10,000 miles just to make sure that they don't help any working Americans.

[SoCalDem]

5. The people never learn, do they? n/t

[dtotire]

6. Bump

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