Young Guns or not they are still beholden to the same failed reactionary dogma of their elders
Until such time as Republicans lead their party towards the sanity of its moderate midwestern and northeastern roots, the party both deserves, and needs, to die
I don't get this. While we can expect the delivery and specificities to change, the underlying political theories will not. They are "conservatives" for a reason.
Tell me, what was so dynamic and fresh about the ideas of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama?
I just know this much. I'll take the pragmatically center-left Obama over the last eight years of governance with all the finesse of an idiologically-driven cackhanded inept, aided and abetted with no checks and balances from within the congressional GOP whatsoever. All they appear to be atoning for, on the part of George W Bush, is the spending!
President Barack Obama owes his success to, overwhelming support from moderate voters and Speaker Nancy Pelosi owes her gavel to the electoral success of moderate Democrats - and that is why they can't lead from the left. We all know that within the Democratic "big tent" there are forces of restraint from within. Indeed, they are those such as Michael Lind - a progressive populist of the 'New Deal' tradition - who fear that Obama and other Democratic leaders are prisoners to the "cult of neoliberalism"
Finally, you can't expect a pragmatic Christian Democrat, to view some radical rightwing party, like the Republican Party, particularly, favorably. And the proposed House Republican spending 'freeze' and tax cuts are, from where I'm sitting, very radical. Not to mention those on the Right who persist in smearing the president with all of that "socialist", "radical", "Marxist", "birther" nonsense
