Legal Commentary

Pining For Clintonism?

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Glenn Reynolds, this Matt Welch piece from the libertarian Reason magazine gave me a chuckle:

The Death of Neoliberalism Pro-market Democrats disappeared just when we needed them most.

[. . .] I come here not to mourn Bill Clinton, nor to give him sole credit for accomplishments that would not have happened without a hostile Republican Congress, but rather to lament the mostly unremarked passing of the political movement that made his economic successes possible. [. . .] Come back, 1990s. All is forgiven.

Freaking hilarious. Is Reason magazine calling for the return of the Clinton tax plan of 1993? The one that raised the taxes of the rich and lowered it for the working poor? The funny thing is too many Dems, in their drive to demonize Hillary Clinton, forgot that Bill Clinton was the last President to raise taxes on the rich and lower them for the working poor. And apparently that amnesia spread to the libertarians at Reason. Too funny.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).