Is Bush the Wrong Type of Liberal?
According to Howard Sutherland (seen via Lawrence Auster):
Bush is also a born-and-bred establishment liberal. For all the Texas accent, he belongs (patrician Greenwich family; Andover; Yale; Harvard) to a bipartisan Northeastern liberal elite. That set may have been wrong about most things in the end, but during his schooldays they were quite sure they were right.Let's see… They were wrong about Malthusianism, but Bush doesn't believe that. They were wrong about an economic policy of picking winners (e.g., picking the supposedly most productive immigrants), but Bush doesn't believe that. They were wrong about abandoning a supposed quagmire, but Bush doesn't believe that …
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Is Bush the Wrong Type of Liberal?
What would be the right type of liberal?
Classical liberal. You know, the Founding Father type. The conservatives would wet their pants and the current left-liberals would barely manage to keep their disgust against their parents, for their wet dream in part is remaking American Constitution from conservative into progressive document piecemeal.
HE MAY BE BUT EITHER IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER
Treasury Secretary John Snow Resigns
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