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Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong
Moyers & Company, February 10, 2012
http://billmoyers.com/segment/bruce-bartlett-on-where-the-right-went-wrong/
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February 11th, 2012 at 8:25 am
“Bruce Bartlett: Where the Right Went Wrong?”
How’s that Southern Strategy workin fer ya?
Chumps….
February 11th, 2012 at 9:30 am
They really are good at packaging up the spin, half-truth and deceit. And in a nation with so many innumerate, emotional, fearful wusses…. that’ll get plenty of wins on Tuesdays following the Second Monday.
The GOP Media Machine, their mom as would be proud.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:42 am
October 7, 1996. This was the launch date of Fox News. From then on the Republican Party began to become increasingly bombastic – as this sells ratings on Fox News and shall we say having a loose relationship with facts since that got in the way of ratings.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Showcasing white supremacist speakers at CPAC, just one more act of complete idiocy in a long line of irreparable long term damage for the right.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:49 am
Where the right went wrong? The war in Iraq on false pretenses. Medicare part D. Allowing the greatest robbery of all time. What did Obama do wrong? Allowing the greatest robbery of all time. Pushing his own agenda vs it’s the economy, stupid. Politics is all about the money, not the people.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:54 am
I just finished Bartlett’s latest book, “the benefit and the burden.” A good read for those who want a quick primer on tax issues. I agree with him that most people don’t have a clue when it comes to tax issues. They are led by ideology and beliefs instead of facts. The populists and demagogues will continue to set the tone until things are so out of control that drastic changes are forced on us.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Perhaps the need to eradicate the Murdoch cancer will reach our shores.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/11/world/europe/uk-arrests-corruption/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
February 11th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Recently, we suffering listeners have had to endure an older David Stockman. Now, Bill Moyers drags Bruce Bartlett before us.
Rather than practicing his famous feigned look of shock, Bill Moyers should be looking at the real story. Be careful who you let into the henhouse. The Reagan revolution began a downward slide of this country and a takeover of massive amounts of wealth by the corptocracy, including banksters. And it spread worldwide, especially under Bill Clinton.
The oldies-but-goodies like Stockman, Bartlett, and others do not impress me. Their turnaround now looks so phony. Bill Moyers could help us all by interviewing people who have been raising warning flags for decades.
We haven’t gotten what we want or need, but we’ve gotten what we deserve by voting the way we have.
Stockman and Bartlett believe that conditions will continue to deteriorate. They will, thanks to people like Stockman and Bartlett who are clueless as to what they aided and abetted back then.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I largely agree with many of the comments on reaganites being accountable, but that’s not the important point.
The point is the way so many Neocon advocates promoting more of the same poison that’s killing us, use the Reagan brand to promote the corporate & wealthy agenda as somehow beneficial despite the blatant and obvious failure of “trickle down” atop the insistence by more and more actual Reaganites, like Bartlett, that the Neocon version of “Reaganomics” is failing.
I’ve also noticed fewer and fewer media & pundit references to Ayn Rand worship since Alan Greenspan pleaded the case to reverse the Bush tax rates…..whoops…Ayn Rand’s star student isn’t quite so “Ayn Rand” anymore.
Just as Reaganites are apparently less “Reagan” than sophomore members of the House who obsess over Reagan.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Another Reaganite who’s “gone rogue”, Paul Craig Roberts, considered the founder of Reaganomics, has been ranting over special interest influence in D.C. and speaking explicitly angrily about Neocons (not just the Dems), going as far as to state it may take a full scale revolt by the people to regain control of the United States..
February 12th, 2012 at 12:34 am
Mr. Bartlett made a good living promoting one set of economic policies that suited the powers that be then. Out of a job, he has flipped flopped and now badmouths the right/conservatives/tea party. His condescending remarks about religious faith transcending into economic interpretations by all “those conservatives” were proof of his disconnect with the real people. Somehow Bartlett fails to understand that the country is (still) center right and just because the LEADERSHIP of the right have made mistakes upon mistakes, you cannot condemn the entire population. While I agree that the rich should pay more in taxes, the contention that the non-rich pay few taxes is bizarre, go to this web site to see “how much taxes we REALLY pay”:
http://nowandfutures.com/taxes.html
Hint: much, much higher than the 10% Bartlett mentions
Bush’s tax cuts for the non-rich federal tax payers far exceed the same cuts for the rich, a FACT misrepresented in the video. Medicare Part D was a pure unfunded social program, something the left is quite familiar with. Perhaps it should be abolished? I’m waiting for a “where the left has gone wrong” episode from Bill Moyers including recognition that now, the majority of the super rich in this this country have conveniently positioned themselves on the left and thus get a free pass from the media with the exception of the hated Fox News.
February 12th, 2012 at 12:39 am
I think some of his arguments are essentially strawmen.
Who is really saying ‘all govt. is bad’?I don’t think anyone does.
But when people see TSA (Thousands Standing Around), inefficient DMV, hugely bureaucratic EPA, Post office losing billions etc they have reason to ask questions about who is responsible for this piss poor state of affairs.
February 13th, 2012 at 2:34 am
I don’t know enough about him to call him on flip flopping. But he seems to make a hell of of lot of sense. Especially the explanation of how “faith” is being used manipulatively on a lot of folks. I personally have no problem with people changing positions based on meaningful new understanding, it means they are continuing to learn. It’s when people change without being able to articulate why they change, basically lying, that I have a problem with.