I had to post this for Truthmatters. One of her big sayings is who is the party of deregulation? Then she says the Republicans. If forced to pick one I would probably pick the Republicans as well based on rhetoric. As anyone who follows politics knows rhetoric and action can be two very different things. Look at this quote from Jimmy Carter during his 1980 debate with Ronald Reagan. This is from Reason Magazine...
In the March issue, Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch writes: "Liberals and Democrats in the 1970s -a decade that should have proved once and for all the folly of letting 'the best and the brightest' try to build a technocratic nirvana-understood that loosening government control helped consumers at the expense of big corporations. The senator most responsible for pushing through airline deregulation was [Robert F.] Kennedy's uncle Ted. The staffer who did the most important legwork on the Kennedy-led Senate hearings was a guy who would later become a liberal Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer. The most famous consumer advocate in favor of decontrol was Ralph Nader. And above them all stood a liberal president.'I share the basic beliefs of my region [against] an excessive government intrusion into the private affairs of American citizens and also into the private affairs of the free enterprise system,' Jimmy Carter said in his one and only presidential debate with the man liberals now blame for deregulation, Ronald Reagan. 'One of the commitments that I made was to deregulate the major industries of this country. We've been remarkably successful, with the help of a Democratic Congress. We have deregulated the air industry, the rail industry, the trucking industry, financial institutions. We're now working on the communications industry.' If only there were Republicans, let alone Democrats, who were as deregulatory in 2011 as Jimmy Carter was in 1978.
Reason Foundation - Reason Alert: Annual Privatization Report, CPAC, Egypt
In the March issue, Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch writes: "Liberals and Democrats in the 1970s -a decade that should have proved once and for all the folly of letting 'the best and the brightest' try to build a technocratic nirvana-understood that loosening government control helped consumers at the expense of big corporations. The senator most responsible for pushing through airline deregulation was [Robert F.] Kennedy's uncle Ted. The staffer who did the most important legwork on the Kennedy-led Senate hearings was a guy who would later become a liberal Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer. The most famous consumer advocate in favor of decontrol was Ralph Nader. And above them all stood a liberal president.'I share the basic beliefs of my region [against] an excessive government intrusion into the private affairs of American citizens and also into the private affairs of the free enterprise system,' Jimmy Carter said in his one and only presidential debate with the man liberals now blame for deregulation, Ronald Reagan. 'One of the commitments that I made was to deregulate the major industries of this country. We've been remarkably successful, with the help of a Democratic Congress. We have deregulated the air industry, the rail industry, the trucking industry, financial institutions. We're now working on the communications industry.' If only there were Republicans, let alone Democrats, who were as deregulatory in 2011 as Jimmy Carter was in 1978.
Reason Foundation - Reason Alert: Annual Privatization Report, CPAC, Egypt
