By Patrick J. Buchanan They were called "terrorists," "fanatics" and "unpatriotic." Yet the principled resistance of the Tea Party Caucus in the House has put their leader right across the table from Barack Obama to negotiate the final terms of armistice in the debt-ceiling battle of 2011. Today is July 22. On this day, it was said, either Congress will have voted to raise the debt Continue reading...
An Establishment in Panic
Friday - July 8, 2011 at 10:03 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan By refusing to accept tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans are behaving like "fanatics," writes David Brooks of The New York Times. Anti-tax Republicans "have no sense of moral decency," he adds. They are "willing to stain their nation's honor" to "worship their idol." If this "deal of the century" goes down, as he calls the Barack Obama Continue reading...
After the Revolution
Friday - March 11, 2011 at 12:16 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Democracy ... arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects," said Aristotle. But if the Philosopher disliked the form of government that arose out of the fallacy of human equality, the Founding Fathers detested it. "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule," said Thomas Jefferson, "where 51 percent of the people may Continue reading...
!
