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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.

“I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who really believe in principles of limited government, free markets, free people, than to have 60 that don’t have a set of beliefs.”

6 comments to Fine by me

somslawyer

April 29, 2009 at 9:28 am

With that attitude, he will probably get his wish.
Anderson

April 29, 2009 at 9:37 am

The fundamentalization of GOP politics continues apace.

Yet politics is about compromise, about trading the best for the good (or the merely tolerable).

Christianity, in most of its manifestations (esp. those associated with the GOP), rejects compromising its tenets. “What doth it profit a man,” etc.

Confusing these two has always seemed dubious; it may be proving a mistake.
Its All Good

April 29, 2009 at 10:40 am

No open thread so this is as good as any for this fascinating lesson in history:

“…But the New Deal wasn’t new when FDR did it. The charismatic Roosevelt was more than 200 years behind John Law’s Mississippi Bubble, described as “the first New Deal of the capitalist order,” by John T. Flynn in his amazing book Men of Wealth.

In a chapter devoted to the money magician, Flynn cleverly calls Law the “evangelist of abundance.” And conditions in France could not have been riper for Law’s fiscal chicanery in 1715. France was completely ruined by Louis XIV, a ruler whom history has been much too kind to, according to Flynn. He ravaged the country he ruled, while being a “shallow, egotistical, pretentious coxcomb.”…”

http://mises.org/story/3438

Here is a free digitized copy of the book The Mississippi bubble: a memoir of John Law
By Adolphe Thiers, Francis Skinner Fiske

http://books.google.com/books?id=qcUpAAAAYAAJ&hl=en
Ben

April 29, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Republicans are so fulla crap. They rant and rave about more limits on government, fewer limits on free men, greater respect and protection for property rights, and on and on.

So now we have the Mississippi legislature passing legislation limiting the state’s condemnation powers so private property can’t be passed thru the condemning authority and thence into private hands again. Guvnah Mushmouth, the self-anointed savior of personal freedom and private property rights, gave himself a hernia whipping out his veto pencil and killing the bill.

Now the Guvnah wants a special legislative session to pass HIS version of condemnation law, precisely so that private property can be condemned, redeveloped, and conveyed in fee simple back to a private owner who dines much higher up the food chain than did the original owner.

And THAT’S the kind of people the GOP want more of in Congress.

Forget it, Jake ….
WantedToBeALawyer

April 29, 2009 at 10:21 pm

There are so many things wrong with all of these arguments, it is hard to know where to start.
Ben

April 30, 2009 at 8:34 am

WTBAL: don’t worry about finding a starting point. Just jump in and thrash around. You just might find an acorn.

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