Sunday, March 8, 2009

It's Not Morning In America Anymore

I learned my lesson- never, ever blog from my iPhone. Yesterday I was writing in 'stream of conscious', meaning to go back and edit this morning. I did edit and post a decent revision of my thoughts on my dad's decline and the implosion of the conservative movement (see below) but after posting I realized that my unedited mess had already appeared on my FB profile. YIKES!

So however rambling and messy my thoughts it was affirming to hear them articulated today by David Brooks on the ABC Sunday morning show with Cokie Roberts and then to read David Frum (former columnist for NRO). Here is the take away quote from Frum:

The conservatism we know evolved in the 1970s to meet a very specific set of dangers and challenges: inflation, slow growth, energy shortages, unemployment, rising welfare dependency. In every one of those problems, big government was the direct and immediate culprit. Roll back government, and you solved the problem.

Government is implicated in many of today's top domestic concerns as well … But the connection between big government and today's most pressing problems is not as close or as pressing as it was 27 years ago


Here is the video of Brooks on the ABC Sunday Morning Show saying that a spending freeze now would be "insane".