2008 Presidential Election
The economic policies of President Bush and the Republican Congress will receive extreme scrutiny during the next presidential election cycle.
The Bull Moose thinks that current economic policy is highly tilted toward corporations at the expense on the middle class and conservatives.
He writes, "The past few weeks have been very good for the captains of industry. With the passage of the class action bill and the movement on the bankruptcy legislation, the corporate masters of the GOP must be very pleased."
"Not so, the conservatives."
Meanwhile, Ed Quillen cites the Republican Party for their long history of social engineering in his column in yesterday's Denver Post [March 15, 2005, Successful social engineers]. He writes, "Let's start with the United States 150 years ago. Our nation had just conquered a big chunk of Mexico in what one young Army lieutenant, later to become a Republican president, called 'a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American union.'"
"How to respond to the conspiracy that Ulysses S. Grant saw? There was a bitter dispute about how to organize that territory."
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