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The Death of Conservatism?
QandO —
... James Pethokoukis, on the other hand, thinks that if certain things come to pass, conservatism may indeed be dead. Interestingly he thinks that a particular Obama nomination may be the harbinger of that death - Tom Daschle: ...
Tom Daschle, Elephant Hunter
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
James Pethokoukis suggests that Obamacare could kill the GOP: Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of "Marxist thought," puts it: "After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when ...
HOW TOM DASCHLE MIGHT kill conservatism….
Instapundit —
HOW TOM DASCHLE MIGHT kill conservatism.
This Guy Thinks Tom Cohoe Is Right
Daily Pundit —
How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism - Capital Commerce (usnews.com)
Well, we’ll see, I guess.
Making It Explicit
Political Animal —
Making It Explicit James Pethokoukis in US News (h/t Sullivan ): "Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of "Marxist thought," puts it: "After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when health care, social ...
Making It Explicit
Obsidian Wings —
... by hilzoy
James Pethokoukis in US News (h/t Sullivan):
"Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of "Marxist thought," puts it: "After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when ...
They Can’t Help It
The Mahablog —
... Also — I had hoped to write a commentary on “How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism,” but ran out of time. I’ll be busy most of today and won’t be back until this evening. Here’s ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Weekends are for punditry! David Broder: it's about health care. OMB and HHS are more important than soap opera. And I spoke to Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole and neither will vote against health reform this time around, so I am reassured. Now if only Lyndon Johnson would return my calls... James Pethokoukis: The GOP strategist had been joking about the upcoming presidential election and giving his humorous assessments of the candidates. Then he suddenly cut out the schtick and got scary serious. "Let me tell you something, ...
The right, healthcare, and political survival
Political Animal —
... that I wanted to add one observation to. U.S. News' James Pethokoukis and Cato's Michael Cannon believe that if Obama is successful in passing a national healthcare plan, Americans will not only like it, but will reward Democrats for having passed it. As a result, Pethokoukis and Cannon conclude, conservatives need to block the reform effort, whether it's a good idea or not. I'd just add that a certain leading conservative sketched out the exact same position 15 years ago. His name is Bill Kristol. It's largely faded from memory, but I'd argue one of the more important ...
Game over
Cold Fury —
... with the Repugs too. And then there’s this : The GOP strategist had been joking about the upcoming presidential election and giving his humorous assessments of the candidates. Then he suddenly cut out the schtick and got scary serious. “Let me tell you something, if Democrats take the White House and pass a big-government healthcare plan, that’s it. Game over. Government will dominate the economy like it does in Europe. Conservatives will spend the rest of their lives trying to turn things around and they will fail.” There’s more, all of it on target, and I must say I just ...
The Health of the Parties
The Corner on National Review Online —
... and James Pethokoukis have each recently written that the enactment of "universal health care" could strengthen the Democrats for a very long time. I have made the same point in the past, and it seems to be a point that is easily misunderstood. I tried to clarify matters in ...
What really scares the Republicans/Conservatives
Newshoggers.com —
... By Ron Beasley
With the Democrats in charge the conservatives are running scared. It's not so much the progressive policies that scare them as the fear that those policies will work and people will like them - think Social Security. James Pethokoukis admits as much in:
How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism
The GOP strategist had been joking about the upcoming presidential election and giving his humorous assessments of the candidates. Then he suddenly cut out the schtick and got scary serious. "Let me tell you ...
WILL NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE KILL CONSERVATISM?
Right Wing Nut House —
... add the pathologically bigoted writings of Debbie Schlussel and just about everything written by Robert Kagan as examples on the right of writers who make a living penning witless missives, dopey treatises, and uninformed balderdash. But even very smart, very witty people can fall victim to the Stupid Virus. Take the delightful CNBC host and commentator James Pethokoukis, who also writes a money blog for US News and World Report . He really caught a virulent form of the disease with his post entitled “How Tom Daschle might kill conservatism.” The GOP strategist had ...
Top Priority
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
If small-government conservatism is to survive, then small-government conservatives had better ensure that they read James Pethokoukis . What he says about the policy and political impact of nationalizing health care is entirely on point and should concentrate the minds of anyone and everyone who wants to keep government within its appointed limits.
Reports: Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... James Pethokoukis, at U.S. News and World Report, draws the same conclusion as Cannon does from Markowitz's analysis of how universal healthcare changed the political dynamic in Britain: ...
Reports: Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... James Pethokoukis, at U.S. News and World Report, draws the same conclusion as Cannon does from Markowitz's analysis of how universal healthcare changed the political dynamic in Britain: ...
The Road To 60-- And Unemployment Insurance
DownWithTyranny! —
... Republican rubber stamp Norm Coleman, the only hope the GOP has to keep Obama from succeeding in saving America-- and perhaps dealing a well deserved fatal blow to right-wing extremism as a viable political brand in America-- is in the blood red heart of Dixie, Georgia. And Martin is no reactionary from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. He's the real deal. ...
A Few Hammers Short Of A Bag At USN&WR
Sadly, No! —
... . He is predicting the end of Western civilization as we know it if one single additional person gets health insurance. Instead of having the decency to die off, as is the moral obligation of the lazy, worthless bums who find themselves at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, these losers will, thanks to health insurance, live to vote again. And who will they vote for? Why, the New Socialist Islamobamic Democratic Party, of course! ...
The problem with universal health care? It will work.
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... , I’m pleased to see that James Pethokoukis in US News & World Report is doing what conservatives generally won’t do with regards to opposing a universal health care plan---tell the truth. Well, sort of. I mean, the entire thing is laden in wingnut myths about how rich, white people are morally superior to the rest of us (he calls them the Investor Class, as opposed to the Fucked Our Economy With Real Estate Scams Class), but the general gist of it ...
THOUGHTS ON THE PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
Right Wing Nut House —
... to favor getting something passed before the end of the year. If the House vote proved anything, it is that the Democrats are fully capable of coming up with solutions that will allow their huge majorities to win the day regardless of the issues. They have proven adept at papering over their differences, finessing the insoluble, and coming up with imaginative gimmicks to make national health care reform a reality. The question then arises; where to, conservatism? There has been more than one liberal pundit who has speculated that the passage of national health care reform ...
