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August 21, 2003
Treason and Taxation
Kudlow gets all mushy for Arthur Laffer's influence on the Schwartzenegger camp.
I wonder if anyone is at all concerned about the skills of Arnold himself. A man with his celebrity speaks a few phrases and gathers several eminences grey out of the national woodwork, and that makes him an appropriate leader?
It seems to me, beginning with George Schultz himself, that the Republican party has purchased fully into the idea of a shadow executive branch. Americans elect personalities and we wind up with a cadre of back-office manipulators who head in their own directions without coherent leadership. It's all up to spinners to make administrative policy appear consistent, and screwups can be shuffled off with plausible deniability.
This is the result of a party of strong ideologues and weak leaders. A party of the people cannot be lead by ideologues, and I believe they have sabotaged electoral politics.
If I were to observe this country from any reasonable distance, it would not surprise me to find the academy running witlessly left. Clearly the brains have left the public sphere and the Machiavellians are running the right.
I hope that some people come to realize that greatest problems that face our nation have little to do with taxation, and if Arnold comes to represent nothing more that the candidate for unending tax abatement, that California sends him back to his compound. There comes a point at which defunding government as a first priority is treasonous. Republicans on this track will be the first to trip that wire.
Posted by mbowen at August 21, 2003 03:52 PM
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