Speaker Magnet
by Jim Brayton
Highlighting the chart, Andrew Sullivan suggested it’s evidence as to “why conservatism needs to rethink its economic policies.” But the startling fact remains that conservatives intend to do no such thing. Ask every Republican lawmaker on the Hill and they’ll agree that the economic policies they embraced in the last decade are no different than those they intend to embrace in the new decade — the only difference being their stated desire to see the government invest less in the coming years.
