{"id":3966,"date":"2010-03-27T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2010-03-27T20:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T00:07:52","slug":"the-truth-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/27\/the-truth-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"the truth hurts…"},"content":{"rendered":"
My reaction to David Frum’s<\/strong> article [Waterloo<\/strong><\/a>] last week was to be pleased that a conservative politician founded sounded like a Conservative [reactions…<\/a><\/strong>]. Like many, I’ve lamented the almost zero commentary from true Conservatives since the Circus performing Republicans came on the scene. Then this morning, I was looking over the usual papers before driving to Atlanta to teach a Seminar and I read this in the New York Times<\/strong>. David Frum was fired from AEI the day after he wrote the article!<\/font><\/strong><\/em> <\/div>\n
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Can ‘No’ Revive the Republicans?<\/a>
New York Times
the Opinionator<\/strong>
By TOBIN HARSHAW
March 26, 2010<\/div>\n

… The most surprising critic of this approach, however, was the former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum. “It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster<\/a><\/strong>,” he lamented at his site FrumForum. “Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But: (1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November — by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs. (2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.”<\/p>\n

In this pessimism, Frum was part of a sizeable minority of conservatives. But in the rest of the column, he crossed a Rubicon of sorts. “At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration,” Frum explains. “No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo — just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.”<\/p>\n

The result of this blind ambition?<\/div>\n