JFK
Kennedy was a Democrat?
Two-minute speech, quite amazing: Income Tax Cut, JFK Hopes To Spur Economy 1962/8/13
What to make of this? I think what it means is that in 1963, Democrats and Republicans basically agreed on macro-economics, even if they didn't agree about much else. That must have made the overall job of governing much easier, for both parties.
That consensus dissolved as Democrats moved further and further to the left. Obama's economic views and policies today are pretty much the opposite of Kennedy's: Obama wants more taxes and more government spending, regardless of deficits. And just as Kennedy presumably represented the views of fellow Democrats in Congress back then, Obama represents the mainstream of today's Democrats.
The problem for the GOP is that "meeting in the center" now means meeting at a place well to the left of where it once was. Standing on their own principles gets them portrayed as obstructionists, as the ones responsible for gridlock. Whatever anyone might think of the GOP, it's not hard to see why they see that as deeply unfair. In their view, Democrats, with the assistance of a strongly liberal media, are trying to turn that line along the left shoulder into the new center line -- and crippling the economy in the process.
Byron
Two-minute speech, quite amazing: Income Tax Cut, JFK Hopes To Spur Economy 1962/8/13
What to make of this? I think what it means is that in 1963, Democrats and Republicans basically agreed on macro-economics, even if they didn't agree about much else. That must have made the overall job of governing much easier, for both parties.
That consensus dissolved as Democrats moved further and further to the left. Obama's economic views and policies today are pretty much the opposite of Kennedy's: Obama wants more taxes and more government spending, regardless of deficits. And just as Kennedy presumably represented the views of fellow Democrats in Congress back then, Obama represents the mainstream of today's Democrats.
The problem for the GOP is that "meeting in the center" now means meeting at a place well to the left of where it once was. Standing on their own principles gets them portrayed as obstructionists, as the ones responsible for gridlock. Whatever anyone might think of the GOP, it's not hard to see why they see that as deeply unfair. In their view, Democrats, with the assistance of a strongly liberal media, are trying to turn that line along the left shoulder into the new center line -- and crippling the economy in the process.
Byron
posted by Byron | Friday, November 22, 2013
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