Comments on: The Republicans’ Struggle

By: captain_menace

captain_menace — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:02:40 +0000

What about the fourth “group” Lefty???

Criminals.

By: The Republicans’ Struggle

The Republicans’ Struggle — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:24:48 +0000

[...] The Republicans’ Struggle …the Republican Party [falls] into three main groups: believers in (1) free markets, low taxes, and small government; [...]

By: bb

bb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:47:52 +0000

Lefty,

Not really. There is plent of blame to go around, but adding regulations IMHO seldom if ever solves problems.

I also disagree with his analysis of the three groups comprising the GOP. But I don’t fault him because he is not a Republican…just another outsider trying to provide advice.

By: LeftHook

LeftHook — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:44:34 +0000

bb: do you agree with his assertion that: “The financial crisis has hit economic libertarians in the solar plexus, because the crisis is largely a consequence of innate weaknesses in free markets and of excessive deregulation of banking and finance, rather than of government interference in the market.”

By: LeftHook

LeftHook — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:41:31 +0000

He advocated torture in the specific ‘ticking bomb’ scenario where the person in custody definitely knows how to short circuit the attack. He doesn’t advocate rounding people up and waterboarding them to see if any info turns up.

In any event, I’m glad you respect him.

By: bb

bb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:24:29 +0000

Wow, Lefty is referencing a torture advocate — When reviewing Alan Dershowitz’s book, “Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge”, Posner wrote in The New Republic, September 2002 that “If torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used—and will be used—to obtain the information. … no one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position of responsibility.