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Oh, no. The country is turning left. The Always Right Fred Barnes:
There’s an old saying that politics in America is played between the 40 yard lines. What this means, for those unfamiliar with football, is that we’re a centrist country, never straying very far to the left or the right in elections or national policies. This has been true for decades. It probably won’t be after today’s election.
Fred Barnes must have been asleep for the last eight years when things ...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... Fred Barnes warns that America is facing a "sharp lurch to the left," with an Obama presidency. And the media sucks. And Nancy Pelosi isn't to be trusted. ...
Bring It On!
Riehl World View —
That's in the sense of the election, of course. Geesh! It is time to get it over with one way or the other. And I'm certain most Americans agree.
However, I am also referring to this bit by Fred Barnes in the event of an Obama win.
We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left A President Obama would not face the same constraints as his Democratic predecessors.
He makes some excellent points as to why the usual constrictions on a shift too far Left don't exist in the media and inside the Beltway. But there is this: ...
Let The Right-Wing Lies Begin!
Firedoglake —
... Fred Barnes in the WSJ this morning is talking about "the 'card check' proposal to end secret ballots in union elections." And Tom Troy of the Toledo Blade writes in ...
A Lurch to the Left (At Least on Economic Policy):
The Volokh Conspiracy —
I rarely agree with conservative columnist Fred Barnes, who I generally consider to be too pro-Bush and too much of a big government conservative. But I think he is right to warn of a major potential surge to the left after Barack Obama wins today (as is highly likely). As Barnes points out, Obama will likely have a relatively free hand in greatly expanding government. Not only will he be working with a strongly Democratic Congress, but congressional Democrats themselves have become much more uniformly liberal over the last 15 to 20 years. As a result, there are few moderate ...
Your election day cheeriosity. To go along with the ascent of Hopitude, Changeyness, and ethanol scams
protein wisdom —
“We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left,” Fred Barnes : For the first time since the 1960s, liberal Democrats are dominant. They are all but certain to have a lopsided majority in the House, and either a filibuster-proof Senate or something close to it. If Barack Obama wins the presidency today, they’ll have an ideological ally in the White House. A sharp lurch to the left and enactment of a liberal agenda, or major parts of it, are all but inevitable. The centrist limits in earlier eras of Democratic control are gone. In the short run, Democrats may be constrained by the weak ...
Impatient
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page —
Here’s the bleak picture: A sharp lurch to the left and enactment of a liberal agenda, or major parts of it, are all but inevitable. The centrist limits in earlier eras of Democratic control are gone. In the short run, Democrats may be constrained by the weak economy and a large budget deficit. Tax hikes and massive spending programs, except those billed as job creation, may have to be delayed.
But much of their agenda—the “card check” proposal to end secret ballots in union elections, the Fairness ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
Likely Illinois Republican senatorial candidate Mark Kirk has a strong showing in an early poll.
Remember how zealous Republicans abandoned relentlessly campaigned for Specter in 2004?
Fred Barnes' Election Day prediction that we were in for a "lurch to the left" is unfortunately looking on target.
A Quinnipiac poll shows that "American voters oppose 55 - 38 percent a law in their state allowing same-sex couples to marry, but support 57 - 38 percent allowing same-sex couples to form civil ...
