No more reporting, just opinion. 

"The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another
depression does not seem to fit the national mood, and it's shamelessly
hypocritical, given the party's recent history of massive deficit
spending on pork, war and prescription drugs in good times, not to
mention its continuing support for deficit-exploding tax cuts in bad
times..."

Who is guilty of massive deficit spending again....?

What planet does this guy live on?Maybe he forgot about the almost four trillion dollar spending spree that Barack just went on or the fact that maybe he intends to nationalize the healthcare industry.

Barack Obama makes George Bush look like a penny pincher.

Hey Janet Napolitano...I'm proud to be a Right-winger.

LOL-The GOP is not even conserative, much less "extremely" so.

Pretty soon, these twits will have "moderate" conservatism defined down to what socialism is today.

That will make room for the "centrist" dims to occupy full-blown communism.

-Dave

these journalists could try and explain the truth of the matter but no -  they'd rather further the lie.

Hold on ‘cause the world will turn if you're ready or not ~ KT Tunstall

The Left's Alinsky-like attacks on Conservatives are truly relentless.  And, for the most casual intelligent observer, totally transparent.  The problem with these types of attacks is that they only make an impression on the already Ignorant Masses.  The smart people know better and see the fools for what they are.

It certainly isn't a report. It added no new information, nor did it intend to. It was simply a survey of the liberal perspective, as told by an vindictive liberal reporter, and published by an increasingly vindictive liberal news organization. And you can hardly call it analysis, because it simply throws insults after insult, without the slightest attempt at explanation.

Here's what I just don't get: what conservative ideas have been discredited? (Note: the Republican politicians may have been exposed as clowns, but there is a distinction between the ideas and the politicians who use those ideas to get elected.) After all ... 

• Many financiers made stupid bets, lending to people who couldn't possibly make their mortgage. When the gas crisis squeezed the fantasy out of those bets, the financiers who made the bad debts were in trouble.
• Suddenly we heard that there are some lenders who aren't allowed to fail. Followed, bailouts.
  • OK, lesson learned: If some organization is so important that you can't allow them to fail, you can't allow them to take unrealistic risks.
  • Better lesson: don't allow any one organization to become so important that they're not allowed to fail. If we can have anti-trust laws to guarantee competition, why can't we have (and enforce) financial anti-trust laws?
• If only the White House had tried to regulate the unrealistic lenders. Wouldn't it have saved everyone a lot of trouble if the White House had proposed stricter scrutiny on some major lenders? (What's that? They did? Really?)
• Surely no one in Congress, from either side of the aisle, would object to reasonable regulation. (What's that? They did? Really?)

So here's my problem: what does the financial disaster have to do with Republican ideas about tax cuts? How does what happened "disprove" the validity of limiting spending? Neither of those ideas have been discredited, as the Obama Spin Machine insists.

Well, hasn't de-regulation been discredited? OK, to some degree, yes, but put it in perspective. Whoever believed that all regulation is bad, as it often seemed, pushed the mantra to the extreme.

Conservatives aren't anarchists. We believe in government. And we're not laissez-faire ostriches about the private sector, either. So even if the Bush Administration didn't try hard enough to regulate Fannie and Freddie ... conservatives did try to regulate the abuses before they became disasters.

Insufficient regulation (or enforcement of existing regulations, like margin rules) in one case doesn't justify excessive regulation everywhere else.

Here's the basic conservative idea: Government is a hammer, but not every problem is a nail.

That will never be discredited, because it is always true.

   The MSM is struggling to find some relevant villains since the departure of George Bush.  The liberal agenda is not something that can be sold on it's own merits.  That is, it's hard to convince people that higher taxes and more intrusion by the government in their personal lives is a good thing.

  Obama was elected because he wasn't George Bush or a Republican.  The only way obama can be re-elected is if the media can pull the same scam a second time around.  So continuing negative stories about anything on the political right will continue indefinitely. 

The only time I actually see these political yellow sheets are when I visit my doctor or dentist.  My guess is that they have no clue what they are supporting with regards to their subscriptions.

Next time I go for a cleaning or check up I'm going to make it a point to ask them why they are supporting a magazine that is lobbying for the demise of their profession.

I just love it when the Kommiecrats help the GOP...

The only people who believe anything in TIME magazine all live on an island.  Anyone who works for a living doesn't give a crap with what TIME comes up with, and they haven't in years.

These folks write for a very small audience.  They can not even define what a Conservative is and be truthful about it.  Mostly, these folks are meaner than a cut snake.

The problem with the economy is down to one thing, and one thing only: IRRESPONSIBLE, RECKLESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING.  In prosperous years, the commies in the Congress and the State Legislatures SPENT the extra revenues generated by TAX RATE CUTS, and projected even greater revenues based on wildly optimistic estimates of further growth...and they committed to spending the projected revenues.  When the recession hit and revenues were far less than projected, the obligations government had already attached to the taxpayer were greater than the revenue generated to the Treasury.  These scumbags in the legislatures and their rubber stamp morons in the executive branch got greedy and, rather than saving the surplus revenues for a rainy day, they spent as if a rainy day would never come...now they're scrambling to meet these unsustainable obligations and build a rainy day fund by raising income tax rates?  Their economic ignorance is staggering.  You don't grow an economy by growing government, you grow an economy by shrinking government and encouraging those intelligent enough to stay the hell out of government to use their superior intellects and work ethics to meet consumer demand and, in turn, create jobs, create more taxpayers, eliminate need for government "services" and generate more revenues to the Treasury.  The reason that TIME Magazine is in the irreversable crapper is because it continues to run breathtakingly ignorant opinion pieces by hubristic, know-nothing parasites like Michael Grunwald and expects that people with discretionary income are still stupid enough to buy it.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

Conservative values and principles are the principles of America, and are therefore, nothing resembling "extreme".  This is just agendized propaganda from far left extremist propagandists.

George Will has an interesting column today (http://townhall.com/...) which is similar in thought to this.

I find it interesting that the "left" has been the side on which we have had pseudo-sciences such as eugenics (http://hnn.us/articl...), the food theories of Lysenko (http://www.physics.s...), Keynesian economics (http://www.amatecon.... which is enjoying a rebirth among the pseudo intelligentsia) and now "global climate change" (http://www.crichton-...).  In the case of the first three, these so-called scientific arguments have resulted in mass deaths and ruined economies.  In the case of the fourth, it has the potential to dwarf the damage of the other three. 

The point of fact is that we should be VERY afraid when the word "scientist" gets applied to a political hack of the left and when the left picks on theories, everybody should look at them at least twice as there may actually be a lot of good in what they label as "crackpot".  Remember, the "big bang" was a derided theory, and that the "big bang" was a pejorative term  coined to deride the theory (http://archive.ncsa....).

"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."

G. W. F. Hegel

Look, Time magazine: why did you feel the need to put the name Michael Grunwald on this piece when we know it has all the same stylistic qualities (to use that term very loosely) as the scribbings of Meghan McCain?

Time: "They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base."

Meghan: "I am not suggesting that extreme conservatism wasn’t once popular, nor
am I suggesting I should in any way be any kind of voice for the party....[Ann Coulter] does appeal to the most extreme members of the Republican Party....Coulter is nothing if not controversial. Everything about her is extreme....I am sure most extreme conservatives and extreme liberals would find me a confusing, walking contradiction....Where has our extreme thinking gotten us?"

So come on, give credit where credit is due! (And P.S., Meghan professes to be "a woman who despises labels and boxes and stereotypes." So there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with calling conservatives "extreme" 59 times or so, right?)

Most voters are not interested in voting for God as they go to the polls. They are only interested in a candidate that will help secure their jobs. The Republican party and its conservative base has picked up the label as the party of God. But Democrats would rather keep God in the sky not in the working place. Unless the Republican Party gets down to Earth and starts using common sense they will only get the votes of the bible thumpers.

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When did Obama Magazine change it's name to Time??????

They are just using the official language of the DHS.

But seriously, folks.  This is a disturbing case of extreme sensationalism and pop-liberal bias.

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

It is probably Time magazine that is an endangered species, I wonder what their circulation numbers are these days.  I haven't picked up a copy to read in years.  Liberal rag!

Before we have a government that can supply us with everything we will have a government that can provide us with nothing.