The only free market left
What happened last night and how it's being played in the press tells us exactly how the next 4 years are going to be played by Congressional Republicans. They will do everything they can to make sure that economic packages necessary to turn the economy around either don't get passed or get badly compromised.
They will blame the failure of such bills, and of the economy itself, on unions and on not adhering to "free market" principles. Every time they kill a bill, they will say that it's because they have rediscovered their conservative ideological roots and now understand that bailing out big companies with public money is bad, and that the free market needs to be allowed to run.
They will seize the mantle of principle and stick to it, as they are doing with the auto bailout, when they voted against an industry which has given much more money to Republicans than Democrats:
For many conservatives in Congress, the idea of government rescuing any industry is simply unpalatable -- and that trumps any contributions from Detroit.
"The tension for Republicans is that it's an industry that's been staunchly in their camp for many years, but this is legislation calling for billions of dollars of government spending," said Massie Ritsch, spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics. "It's a conflict between their principles and their longtime supporters."
rest at http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/how-the-republicans-intend-to-win-in-2012/
No comments:
Post a Comment