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HIGHLY EXPLICABLE. It's a small point, but one passage in the aformentioned National Review article made me laugh out loud:
If Republicans want credit for spending restraint, they also should have some high-profile program eliminations. Corporate welfare presents obvious targets. It seems inexplicable that Republicans haven’t taken up this issue despite the fact that every conservative think tank has pushed them to do it for years.Indeed! It's a bottomless mystery why Republicans haven't cut off the public spigots to corporations. If TAPPED were a less honest enterprise I'd leave the excerpt truncated like that, but duty compels me to point out the authors' next sentence: "But the influence of business lobbyists and farm-state members has preserved Washington’s 'spending for the rich.'" Very true. So what's "inexplicable," again?
--Sam Rosenfeld
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It's inexplicable that the corporations haven't lined up behind eliminating some minor item of corporate welfare, for public relations' sake.
Actually, it is inexplicable.
Posted by: Stuart Thiel | June 20, 2006 1:13 PM
Wait -- you mean the Republicans haven't gotten credit for turning record surpluses into record deficits??
Is there no justice??
Posted by: Gore/Feingold '08 | June 20, 2006 1:45 PM
I'm not normally one to rush to the National Review's defense but your criticism is unfair. The author wrote that it "seems inexplicable..." That may be too nuanced for some people, but we left-of-center types are the ones who are supposed to be OK with nuance, right?
Posted by: Beale | June 20, 2006 3:11 PM
Beale:
So I guess Sam should have said, "What 'seems inexplicable,' again?" Or would that have made the whole post pointless?
Either way, the NR's whine is a scream.
Posted by: SqueakyRat | June 20, 2006 7:08 PM
There is some mystery here. Wing nut think tankers are enthusiastic mercenaries, so would some corporate type think that corporate welfare should be advocated, some think tanks would do it.
Mysteriously, the money guys are content lobbying, bribing etc. while not funding any think tank research proving that corporate welfare is good for the nation, or perhaps to the entire humanity.
Posted by: piotr | June 21, 2006 4:28 PM
I am so ashamed that I wasted my vote on a piece of crap like george warmonger bush. It is clear that the last three presidents produced by the republican party were nothing more then corrupt and the rich man's rich man. There is a very special dark place in hell for these people who have manipulated the stupidity and one dimensional voting habits of the religeous right wing of this nation. I'll never make the mistake of voting republican again. Thanks for the memories GOP.
-Eyes Wide Open
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