Tag: kevin drum

Point: mrgan submits an amusing logo for The League of Internet Commenters.

Counterpoint: This comment (made in response to Kevin Drum):

The idea of a backlash against “crazy town conservatism” makes about as much sense as a backlash against professional wrestling.
What is called “conservatism” in America today is no longer a political or ideological movement. It is an entertainment demographic.
The so-called “leaders” of so-called “movement conservatism” are less and less interested in actual political leadership, and more and more interested in schemes for separating the Ditto-Head rubes from their money.

You can laugh at the Tea Party if you want to.
But Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are laughing even harder.
All the way to the bank.

Sublime and timely. Suggest adding at least one tooth to said logo. Also maybe a kitten.

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.