http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/ Covering the 2008 election Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:28:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36308 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:47:37 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36308 [...] “But the base is not so happy right now,” writes eye in an eyeon2008.com post titled Just babies, guns, and taxes? Or more? The party is angry because George Bush isn’t conservative enough. What does that mean? Taxes? Um, no. He cut those. A bunch. Babies? PBA. Judges. A huge number of executive orders. Probably not that. Guns? Well, he let the Assault Weapons Ban expire. Probably not the problem there. What are the problems? Spending. Immigration. Campaign finance reform. Etc. [...] […] “But the base is not so happy right now,” writes eye in an eyeon2008.com post titled Just babies, guns, and taxes? Or more? The party is angry because George Bush isn’t conservative enough. What does that mean? Taxes? Um, no. He cut those. A bunch. Babies? PBA. Judges. A huge number of executive orders. Probably not that. Guns? Well, he let the Assault Weapons Ban expire. Probably not the problem there. What are the problems? Spending. Immigration. Campaign finance reform. Etc. […]

]]> http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36270 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:55:58 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36270 [...] As our friend LJ has pointed out in recent weeks, there is a reorganization underway in the voting blocs, regional bases, and even the political behavior of our two major parties. The once-Republican North and West are now blue. The once Democratic South is presently red. Business is blue. The working class is red. The party that nominates its heir apparent by acclamation is blue. The party that holds the endless primary fight is now red. And so on. As such, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Grand Old Party, which has been organized around a political philosophy since Goldwater announced the coming of Reagan, is now transforming into what the Democratic Party used to be: a collection of interest groups. Soren Dayton has more: I’m going to get in big trouble for this. [...] […] As our friend LJ has pointed out in recent weeks, there is a reorganization underway in the voting blocs, regional bases, and even the political behavior of our two major parties. The once-Republican North and West are now blue. The once Democratic South is presently red. Business is blue. The working class is red. The party that nominates its heir apparent by acclamation is blue. The party that holds the endless primary fight is now red. And so on. As such, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Grand Old Party, which has been organized around a political philosophy since Goldwater announced the coming of Reagan, is now transforming into what the Democratic Party used to be: a collection of interest groups. Soren Dayton has more: I’m going to get in big trouble for this. […]

]]> http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36268 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:44:52 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/11/just-babies-guns-and-taxes-or-more/#comment-36268 [...] As our friend LJ has pointed out in recent weeks, there is a reorganization underway in the voting blocs, regional bases, and even the political behavior of our two major parties. The once-Republican North and West are now blue. The once Democratic South is presently red. Business is blue. The working class is red. The party that nominates its heir apparent by acclamation is blue. The party that holds the endless primary fight is now red. And so on. As such, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Grand Old Party, which has been organized around a political philosophy since Goldwater announced the coming of Reagan, is now transforming into what the Democratic Party used to be: a collection of interest groups. Soren Dayton has more: I’m going to get in big trouble for this. [...] […] As our friend LJ has pointed out in recent weeks, there is a reorganization underway in the voting blocs, regional bases, and even the political behavior of our two major parties. The once-Republican North and West are now blue. The once Democratic South is presently red. Business is blue. The working class is red. The party that nominates its heir apparent by acclamation is blue. The party that holds the endless primary fight is now red. And so on. As such, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Grand Old Party, which has been organized around a political philosophy since Goldwater announced the coming of Reagan, is now transforming into what the Democratic Party used to be: a collection of interest groups. Soren Dayton has more: I’m going to get in big trouble for this. […]

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