Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:02:18 PM
For years conservatives have been told that columnists like Thomas Friedman and David Brooks are conservatives by those in the mainstream press. Often when quoting them they will use statements such as "Conservative Thomas Friedman or Conservative David Brooks." My question is, conservative compared to who? In the last election those in the MSM stated repeatedly that if only those in the Republican party would follow the model of Brooks and Friedman we would have won the election. It appears that the MSM has been using the strategy that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. Brooks and Friedman are no more conservative in their philosophy than Bill Clinton and never have been. They have consistently been derisive towards the Regan model declaring it passe and have stated time and time again that if Republicans (read that conservatives) wish to regain control of the government they need to moderate their views. The Regan model is no more passe than the ten commandments and it is just as timeless.
Regan believed that the money you earned was yours and that you knew far better how to spend it than the bureaucrats in Washington. He saw government intrusion into the private sector not as a speed bump but a road block and revived an economy that had been struggling for years under the leadership of "moderate" Republicans and liberal Democrats by deregulating industry. Now Friedman and his ilk are championing the cause of tying both hands behind industry's back by supporting the "cap and trade" system proposed by Democrats in congress and supported by the Obama administration. Mr. Friedman showed his true colors when he wrote the following: "Since the opponents of cap-and-trade are going to pillory it as a tax anyway, why not go for the real thing — a simple, transparent, economy-wide carbon tax?" What is the point of such a tax? On the surface it's proponents will tell you that it is to stem the tide of "Global Warming", but the truth is that it is being proposed to put a strangle hold on the free market. To put those who "know best" in charge of the daily lives of every American by controlling down to the smallest detail how we live their lives. That is the evil truth behind the "Green Movement" which is nothing more than a thinly disguised "Red Movement." Communists lost the cold war and the battle of ideas in the eighties and are using the environment as nothing more than a means to the same old end, total government control. Contrary to what Friedman, Brooks and others would have you believe it was only when Republicans abandoned the Regan model that they lost control of government, in more ways than one. So when anyone in the MSM touts those with a liberal agenda as conservative beware, in politics there is no law that demands truth in labelling.