Tea Party

Ah but all your examples point to government making the environment good for business to prosper not adding mandates that affect the bottom line.  How does national health care or bailouts improve the environment for business?  Bailouts allow companies that should die to live and social mandates inmpose taxes that reduce employment or productivity because the money that could be used as capital investments or to pay for more employees instead goes to the government who doles it out to the unproductive.

Perhaps I did not hedge enough, I dont think all government intervention is wrong.  I just dont think most of what is done is done correctly or even though all the way through to logical conclusions.  There is a large element of feel-good emotion to many government programs.The New Deal was OK but it did not solve Americas economic problems WWII did and that has been demonstrated in several recent historical works most notably by Niall Ferguson in the War of the World.  I don't go so far as to even say that all social spending is wrong although i suppose that inference could be made from my general tone.  Once again, the way things are done is juat as important as the what.I also dont think that throwing money at problems is necessarily the way to solve them.  The american education system is a pretty good example of money not solving a problem.  Just as money cant buy happiness it cannot solve every problem.Basically, I am a small government conservative that thinks government should set conditions and then let Adam Smith's dead hand go to work.  Constant tinkering only makes things worse, it does not fix them.

Update: Here is a good piece by Dick Morris about the GOP and the effect the Tea Party is having on it.  Ski, maybe, even hopefully you are right and the Tea Party will pull the Republicans back to where they need to be.

I hope so too.  Because if not, we'll have another term of Imam President Obama

I hope you're right, but all the polls still show a fairly even split.  Not much has changed since '08.

I hope you're right, but all the polls still show a fairly even split.  Not much has changed since '08.

Obama isn't done pissing people off either. 🙂

+1 and then some.  He still has two more years to highlight how inadequate he really is.  I am very curious to see the mid-term results.

If he is defeated in his re-election bid, could he return in a “Grover Cleveland'esque” second term?---My opinion, the primary problem with our current political situation is that politicians, by and large, have greater loyalty to the good of their party than to the good of the nation.

I really wanted to enjoy Obama as the first black president.  He's making it very difficult though.  His answer to everything is more government more government and yes you guessed it, more government. 🙁