I’d like to see labor unions spend more time negotiating pay and benefits and a lot less time negotiating the kind of stultifying work rules that drive managers crazy. I agree with conservatives that Sarbanes-Oxley went too far and probably ought to be scaled back. And I agree […] that local zoning regs often become little more than hammers for NIMBYism and soft corruption.
Kevin Drum.
To which I add: Harrumph. I think this sort of framing is the model for a new Democratic century (or, for that matter, a new and revitalized GOP; there’s absolutely nothing there that Reagan wouldn’t get behind) . That nobody (well, nobody other than Bloomberg) seems to be taking it up with any seriousness is, shall we say: dispiriting.
And yes, I know that such a platform could end up looking like more ultimately pointless Clintonian triangulation, but one would assume that with Better Democrats™, one could rely on the rather obvious popularity of such measures to drive the debate inexorably forward without recourse to a lot of pulling-the-football-away compromising; otherwise, you craft the bill as inviolable take-it-or-leave-its and let the chips fall where they may, fully intending to run on either consequence.
Either way, you can definitively say it’s never been tried.
To which I add: Harrumph. I think this sort of framing is the model for a new Democratic century (or, for that matter, a new and revitalized GOP; there’s absolutely nothing there that Reagan wouldn’t get behind) . That nobody (well, nobody other than Bloomberg) seems to be taking it up with any seriousness is, shall we say: dispiriting.
And yes, I know that such a platform could end up looking like more ultimately pointless Clintonian triangulation, but one would assume that with Better Democrats™, one could rely on the rather obvious popularity of such measures to drive the debate inexorably forward without recourse to a lot of pulling-the-football-away compromising; otherwise, you craft the bill as inviolable take-it-or-leave-its and let the chips fall where they may, fully intending to run on either consequence.
Either way, you can definitively say it’s never been tried.
Lemkin 