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Rosenblog Opinion Review, Vol. 25
September 14, 2006
Ryan Sager, TCS Daily: "Is There An Elephant In Here?" Engrossing first chapter of Sager's new book, "Elephant In The Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, And The Battle To Control The Republican Party." Sager explores the tensions between the younger, more socially-libertarian but fiscally conservative wing of the party and hardline social conservatives. This against the backdrop of the Bush/Rove-ite imperative that the party's current policies, if continued, will enable the GOP to retain control of the legislative and executive branches in Washington for years to come. Sager in his first chapter defines that as ongoing assault on core GOP tenets of small government and limited spending; and social conservative posturing geared to win more support from receptive minority blocs such as blacks and Latinos. Michael J. New, National Review Online, "So Much For Small Government." Review of the new book by Stephen J. Slivinski of the Cato Institute, titled, "Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke The Bank And Became The Party of Big Government." Stephen Slivinski, Cato Institute: "The Grand Old Spending Party: How The Republicans Became Big Spenders" Cinnamon Stillwell, San Francisco Chronicle, "African American Figures Break From The Pack." In a typically link-rich piece, the Chron's young online guest columnist notes the controversial new book by moderate Democrat journalist/commentator Juan Williams underscores the growing movement away from blaming racism for ills still besetting too many American blacks. Juan Williams, Washington Post, "Banish The Bling: A Culture Of Failure Taints Black America." Jabari Asim, Washington Post, "In Baltimore, Staying Home From School." Peter Z. Grossman, Indianapolis Star, "It's Not Wal-Mart, Stupid; How About The Important Issues?" Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Times, "Keep The Immigration Debate Civil." John Morlino, San Francisco Chronicle, "Darfur Activists Are Much Too Polite About Genocide." Harvey Mansfield, Boston Globe, "At Universities, Little Learned From 9/11." Max Boot, Los Angeles Times, "Democracy, Our Protector - Until Every Muslim Can Live And Vote Freely, There Will Always Be Men Jumping At The Chance To Be A Terrorist." Natan Sharansky, Los Angeles Times, "Proxy Terrorism From Iran - It's Time To Bring The Fight Against Terrorists To The Countries That Arm And Fund Them." Brendan Conway, The Daily Standard (daily online site of the Weekly Standard), "The Myth Of The Fightin' Dems." Kevin Shapiro, Commentary, "Global Warming - Apocalypse Now?" TECHNORATI TAGS: REPUBLICANS, SPENDING, RYAN SAGER, STEPHEN SLIVINSKI, BUCK WILD, JUAN WILLIAMS, BLACK SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, BALTIMORE, SCHOOLS, SEPT. 11, AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, RADICALISM, DEMOCRACY, MIDDLE EAST, IRAN, DEMOCRATS, TERRORISM Posted by Matt Rosenberg at September 14, 2006 09:44 PM Comments:
Day 105 24/7 DC VIGIL for DARFUR; Day 35 HUNGER STRIKE (54 days so far this summer, with breaks); ARRESTED Sept 9th at White House with 29 others from Africa Action; http://wwww.standwithdarfurwhitehouseii.blogspot.com THE ONLY HOPE FOR DARFUR: WE-THE-WORLD’S-PEOPLE. Duh. It is said that the mark of truly being “crazy” is expecting different results from doing the same thing over and over and…. Ok, we needed to try some new approaches, hoping we could find a new formula for mass social change (stopping Genocide has NEVER been done); looking for an approach that would be comfortable, convenient, safe, executed from our computer terminal / phone / TV or office in some combination. The variations we’ve tried are: * Blame (Bush, UN, EU…) , * Emails, letters, postcards…,* Letting the Nonprofits do it, * Divestment. And the results are in. WE ARE NOT, STOPPING THE GENOCIDE! You mean that the answer for Darfur is the same answer we found for…* Ending the Vietnam War, * Gaining Civil Rights in the US, * Gaining Women the right to Vote in the US, * Ending apartheid in South Africa, * Throwing off the British oppression at our start....? Yup. No one else, nothing else can stop it, can save 4,000,000 in Concentration Camps in Sudan and Chad. The buck stops with WE-THE-WORLD’S-PEOPLE. Let’s stop talking and start - marching, demonstrating, sitting-in, hunger striking…. The next step is September 17th (SaveDarfur.org; DayForDarfur.org). BUT, then we need to be ready on SEPTEMBER 18th, 19th… AS LONG AS IT TAKES, WHATEVER IT TAKES. Jay McGinley, jymcginley@cs.com Post a comment
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