Perry Has Path to Recovery – He’s Already On It
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 28th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Perry Has Path to Recovery – He’s Already On It
Ed Kilgore, New Republic
By any conventional standard, Rick Perry’s presidential candidacy should be a bad memory by now. From roughly mid-September to mid-October, he had about as bad a month as a candidate could have. He was consistently hesitant, defensive, and inarticulate in a series of high-profile candidate debates. But more importantly, he gave deep offense to conservatives by continuing to support a Texas program providing in-state college tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants. His timing was terrible, too: Perry’s slide began soon after his announcement but not long before…
Obama Using Class Resentment, Envy & Fear
Rep. Paul Ryan, FOX News
“He gave us a message of hope three years ago of uniting, not dividing. And what we're getting now are class warfare. We're getting very polarizing rhetoric that puts class against class, pits people against one another. And I would simply say sowing social unrest and class resentment does not make America stronger, it makes America weaker,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told Greta van Susteren on FOX News. Ryan is the chairman of the House Budget Committee and delivered a speech at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday. Paul says this is an ideological thing with President…
Ideological Fantasies of Inequality Deniers
Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Rising income inequality, like climate change, is an ideologically inconvenient issue for conservatives. They would prefer not to discuss it altogether. If forced to discuss it, they will generally either deny its existence or simply carry on as if it doesn’t exist.The underlying facts, like the facts of climate change, are stark. Over the last few decades, income growth for most Americans has slowed to a crawl, while income for the very rich has exploded. That’s a reversal of the three decades following World War II, when all income groups got richer, with the poor and…