{"id":3673,"date":"2010-01-21T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2010-01-22T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:20:23","slug":"post-massachusetts-blow-out-reconnoitering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/post-massachusetts-blow-out-reconnoitering\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Massachusetts blow-out reconnoitering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emerging consensus among Democrats that they should ratchet back the health care stampede for now is certainly welcome, but not necessarily the corresponding view that they should focus instead on \u201cfixing the economy.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cFixing the economy\u201d will mean the usual incompetent efforts to pick market winners or to bankroll pet projects like \u201cgreen jobs,\u201d rather than lowering the costs of doing business across the board through cutting taxes, regulation,\u00a0<em>and<\/em> spending (pure supply-side\u00a0tax cuts without commensurate spending cuts are as irresponsible as endless deficit spending).\u00a0 Even before the Brown upset, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-lamayor-jobs25-2009dec25,0,520904.story\">preview <\/a>of the typical Democratic noblesse oblige regarding\u00a0 \u201cjob creation\u201d:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether talking about electric cars or his much-promised &#8220;Subway to the Sea,&#8221; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has reworked his message during his second term to focus on a single overriding goal: jobs.\u00a0 . . . The mayor plans to target three sectors: biotechnology, clean technology companies and entertainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about letting the market decide which sectors to target?<br \/>\nThe Brown victory gives conservatives a true cause to celebrate, besides demonstrating that our democracy is still vibrant and that the world can change unpredictably with lightning speed.\u00a0 So maybe Republicans and conservatives can stop manufacturing pseudo-scandals regarding the opposition and start doling out criticism only for activities they don&#8217;t themselves engage in.\u00a0 Last night, radio host John Bachelor was deriding Obama as a big-government liberal for having voted twice as a Senator for TARP.\u00a0 That would be the TARP designed by the Bush Administration.\u00a0 Over the past several weeks, estimable conservative publications have run articles on the demonization of conservatives by the left and on Obama worship.\u00a0 All valid observations.\u00a0 But Rush Limbaugh,\u00a0Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin\u00a0regularly announce that Obama wants to \u201cdestroy America;\u201d the \u201cpal-ing around with terrorists\u201d conceit is still alive and well and has been joined by a &#8220;pal-ing around with Communists&#8221; meme; and the cult of Reagan was not just a late career phenomenon but arose almost immediately upon his entry into the political realm.\u00a0 Sarah Palin&#8217;s fans have not exactly been restrained in their estimation of her talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emerging consensus among Democrats that they should ratchet back the health care stampede for now is certainly welcome, but not necessarily the corresponding view that they should focus instead on \u201cfixing the economy.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cFixing the economy\u201d will mean the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/post-massachusetts-blow-out-reconnoitering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}