ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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"I think we will see the media and academic elites lose all interest in bipartisanship. "
The GOP lost it's bipartisan membership card quite a few years ago. Or should I say they burned it. They will have to earn it back. And the way they are still stuck in Rovian divisive politics: I think we've got a long wait before they change their ways.
That should be the topic of a future post that you write: how the incompetence and power hungry GOP--and their libertarian backers--destroyed the short-term prospects for libertarianism.
It's about time libertarians start analyzing themselves.
Frejus--you're missing the point. No party "burns their bipartisan membership card." Heck, the Nazis and the Bolsheviks signed a non-agression pact, and if they could get along then the Dems and the GOP, who agree on about 95%, will find common ground soon enough. The issue that I think Arnold is addressing, and I think he's right, is that "the spirit of bipartisanship" was only important to the press as long as the Dems weren't in power. When both houses and the White House are Republican, the press wants everyone to get along. When both houses and the White House is Democratic, the focus will be on how well they can steamroll the GOP. In other words, it was always a cynical canard.
"My fear is that financial "reform" will mean putting much of the economy into GSE mode."
Dr. Kling, your fears were realized about 3 weeks ago with the passage of the bailout bill.