Saturday, March 26, 2011

Dems, GOP Differ Over Public Mood About Debt

Yuval Levin, Time
Leaders of democracies, like bear wranglers at the circus, must be experts at reading moods. Most of the time, the leaders of our two major parties seem to have much the same sense of the voters' basic concerns.But for the past two years, the parties have been operating under verydifferent understandings of the public temper.Democrats believed that the economic crisis made the electorate yearnfor security, thereby creating an openness to large public programs.They enacted a gargantuan stimulus bill, expensive health care reformand other expansions of government. Republicans believed that...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/25/dems_gop_differ_over_public_mood_about_debt_252634.html

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