[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Zombie cat listens
- [I Can Has Cheezburger?]
- The Moral Case For Catfood
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
…the Tea Party/GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller from Alaska is just the latest to join a parade of Republican candidates who are taking a a very far right position on everything, but perhaps most surprisingly on Social Security and Medicare…
Kilgore suggests that Democrats take their views seriously and make sure that Americans are correctly informed of them because historically this has been a losing game for the right.I think this is largely correct, but I think we have to watch Democrats just as closely. They seem oddly willing to join this crusade under the illusion that they will be saving the programs by chipping away at them.
The logic of this escapes me, particularly in view of the fact that the right is pushing a moral case [against these programs]…
Update: Posner reminded me of this scary article about the crossroads of Christian Reconstructionism and the tea party, which speaks to this more directly. [link]
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