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CATO Institute Commentary: 'Mosque' Debate Is a Red Herring
I doubt that.
Squishy and wimpy as is Cato, my money still rides with marriage of convenience.
Reid was asked his opinion and gave it, through his spokesman. He's not pushing this, asking for TV face time, like the Rightwingers.actually, if you could read you would see i said "seems"...nice job proving once again you're the moron....oh joy...one independent and you're claiming some victory? what a fucking loser....why have you run away from the fact it doesn't mentino reid? the LEADER of the dems in the senate....
like i said, that alone destroys the credibility of this article...i know facts are a difficult thing for you
that darned left wing Cato Institute.
i see you have modbert's stupidity as well....just because cato leans right does not mean all its articles also lean right...
why is it you left wing hacks ingore the fact that reid wasn't mentioned? that is a huge ommission....
"The First Amendment protects freedom of religion," said Reid's spokesman in a statement. "Senator Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else." Reid is the highest ranking Democrat in the Senate and faces a close and contentious reelection bid against Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle in Nevada. Angle released a statement Monday opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero and said "Reid has a responsibility to stand up and say no to the mosque at Ground Zero or once again side with President Obama."
From Reagan's "welfare queen" to Bush's Willie Horton to Osama to the Rev Wright to Obama to the Mexican immigrants to the muslims, in every election the Republican Party finds a brown or black boogie man to scare white suburban voters into voting Republican.
Racism is the core value of the Republican Party.
yep, like I was saying,'Mosque' Debate Is a Red Herring | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary
All this posturing is getting tiresome. The "mosque" controversy isn't about property rights or religious freedom. It's a bogus issue seized by the GOP establishment to distract the rank-and-file from the party's reluctance to shrink government.
From all the caterwauling, you'd think the Park51 group planned to fashion a mock Kaaba out of trade center ashes and mount it atop the wreckage. But you can't see Ground Zero from the Park51 site it's separated by two canyonlike city blocks, occupying the former site of a Burlington Coat Factory. "Hallowed ground," indeed.The plans include building a large mosque and a 500-seat theater, swimming pool and food court which makes calling it a "mosque" just slightly more accurate than calling a YMCA a "church."
Republicans pose as the party of decentralization, yet here they are reversing Tip O'Neill's dictum, insisting that "all politics is national."There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around, though. It's insulting to hear New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who has persecuted bar owners for the crime of displaying ashtrays, wax rhapsodic about private property.
In a recent (pre-campaign?) appearance in Des Moines, Iowa, Newt Gingrich denounced Obama's "secular socialist machine," but, when asked, he declined to specify federal programs he would cut.
You see, cutting government is hard, and often unpopular. No surprise, then, that Boehner would rather play urban planner than embrace Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's "road map" for shrinking middle-class entitlements.John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of GOP efforts to take back the Senate this fall, plans to make the Park51 "mosque" a major campaign issue. It's all too typical: Feed the rubes conservative identity politics, and, with luck, they'll be too distracted to notice you've grafted a Republican "K Street Project" atop the same old edifice of Big Government.
The establishment Right wants to play the Tea Party movement for suckers. It remains to be seen whether they'll play along.
From Reagan's "welfare queen" to Bush's Willie Horton to Osama to the Rev Wright to Obama to the Mexican immigrants to the muslims, in every election the Republican Party finds a brown or black boogie man to scare white suburban voters into voting Republican.
Racism is the core value of the Republican Party.
Thanks for that insight, Monica.
Ahh, Willie Horton. That was a Lee Atwater invention.From Reagan's "welfare queen" to Bush's Willie Horton to Osama to the Rev Wright to Obama to the Mexican immigrants to the muslims, in every election the Republican Party finds a brown or black boogie man to scare white suburban voters into voting Republican.
Racism is the core value of the Republican Party.
