Reagan
With Ann Coulter's Uranus in conjuction, with Mike Huckabee's Mars, has this planetary alignment sent the US down on a downward spiral?
The conservative news channel, which suffers a huge Stockholm fear, advocates the return of Reaganesque values.
Neil Cavuto, who winces at the thought of America changing to a society like Sweden, had a former Reagan economic advisor, on his Rescue Rumble, bleating about the need for a politican like Reagan, to return to the political scene.
If I remember, as Governor of California, Reagan, saw it fit, to raise taxes from the Sacramento. Also as President, he never got around to balancing a budget, adding 2 trillion dollars to the National debt.
We also remember how foreign policy was formulated to circumvent the Congress and Senate, does that sound familiar?
Peggy Noonan, Reagan's former speechwriter, who is hawking a book, moaning about the level of political debate ( I take it see never bumped into Lee Atwater )is playing defense, because she is more then aware of the way the political wind is blowing.
When i hear morally bankrupt conservatives, happy for Republicans to spend their time impeaching a Democrat president, using Gay marriage as a means of clinging to power, i do have to say, the sentiments are a bit too rich.
When it comes to discourse, we only have to look at Bill O'Reilly, who called Barney Frank a " Coward " while Sarah Palin went running to Fonews, to complain that Kate Couric was a mean girl.
Sarah Palin's parents, who where outraged by the media's coverage of their daughter, should reflect on the outrage felt by the parents of the rape victims, who had to see their daughters, pay police, for rape kits.
Manufactured outrage is not outrage, in the same way Compassionate Conservatism, is not compassionate.