Via Political Wire, we have a Grade A Quote of the Day:"Like all conservatives, I am concerned about this administration's accumulation of economic power. Still, you have to be aware that there's a line where legitimate concerns begin to collapse into paranoid fantasy."
-- Former Bush speechwriter David Frum, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, worried that the GOP base is being whipped up by extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Frum is correct to be worried about the conduct of his own party's activists, consultants, and large-scale funders. The real question, however, is not how much economic power this White House has accumulated, but rather on whose behalf they have accumulated it. Every White House leans heavily on the economy, foreign policy, and all the things that History-with-a-Capital-H discusses in the decades hence. The difference between the Bush White House and its Obama successor is who they targeted with their influence: Bush, the uber-rich investor and CEO class, Obama, pretty much everyone else.
I'm with "everyone else" if put to a choice on the matter. How about you? |
