Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Put Bruce Bartlett...

...in the same company as David Frum, David Brooks, and Andrew Sullivan; i. e., the "thinking man's" conservatives, as opposed to the "knee-jerk" conservatives. You won't find them on Fox or in the Wall Street Journal. Look for Bartlett instead at capitalgainsandgames.com.

Here's a good sample from yesterday's piece, Reagan's Tax Increases (Reagan's what???):

It may come as a surprise to some people that once upon a time in the not-too-distant past Republicans actually cared enough about budget deficits that they thought raising taxes was necessary to bring them down. Today, Republicans believe that deficits are nothing more than something to ignore when they are in power and to bludgeon Democrats with when they are out of power.

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