Mark Schmitt: Victory At What Cost?

So much nonsense in there among a few Mr. Obvious moments. I'll just comment on this:



"A fierce, aggressive liberalism, the counterpart to the high point of conservative exercise of institutional power in the middle of this decade, was not going to succeed. Recall, that such an approach ultimately failed conservatism."



This is utterly devoid of honesty. A fierce aggressive conservatism didn't fail conservatism - there are virtually no conservatives in Congress! What failed conservatism is the fact that radical extremists with horribly bad policy ideas and obsc3.ne egos took over and accelerated the country's decline to the point of implosion.



In other words, "aggression" had little to do with any failures. Horrifically poor decisions and legislation had EVERYTHING to do with the failures.



So in effect, the statement equates the completely success-proof policies of the bush years with liberal policy initiatives. And although you could debate what specific policies are part of "liberalism," most aren't anywhere near the caliber of fail-certain effectiveness as the bush "conservatives."
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