This is true. He at least tried to do something, without the foreknowledge that much of it wasn't going to work. Now we're in a similar situation, and we know that stuff didn't work, but the Repub leaders are so ideologically driven that it's literally all they have to suggest.
Yes, that's correct. I'll also note that when Hoover was president, he got the same crap from his own party whenever he did try something new. Not to say he didn't make mistakes, but if his party had supported him as much as the Democrats supported Roosevelt, history might look a lot different.
James Carville nails it, too. (To be fair, he's by no means the only one to make this point, but he gets special points for (a) being right for once and (b) doing it with such a large megaphone.)
Not entirely. I don't think I'd qualify Caterpillar as "low tech" anymore then Ford or GM so I'm wondering if the companies that have been hit hardest have groupings that no one's looking for.
But yea - a vast majority of the article is spot on. Now to get those NOT in the choir to read it. And understand.
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Date: 2009-02-01 05:23 pm (UTC)And from what I've been reading, some anaylysts think the GOP will be a "third party" by the time 2012 comes around.
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Date: 2009-02-01 07:25 pm (UTC)But yea - a vast majority of the article is spot on. Now to get those NOT in the choir to read it. And understand.