­­­­http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stewardship-or-ideology/2011/06/09/AGjGvrNH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) acting the part of a Republican strategist for the election of 2012, the only problem is that he cannot emancipate himself from a belief in the Great Fake Republican Economic Guru Paul Ryan, nor his own  penchant for breathtakingly reductive, even cartoonish political explanation.  Should that stand in the way of our consideration of his ‘ideas’ as presented, rhetorically framed in his usual self-aggrandizing condescension, without, this time, his spiritual habitation of Robespierre’s  shade, that has a tendency to pall after so many repetitions. The recitation of the same old political names or the newest incarnations of The Sclerotic Old White Guy Party seem unimpressive, pedestrian , although ideologically congruent with the post Bush Restoration political irrationalism, that has captured the GOP. TGD’s emphasis, here, is on domestic considerations: Medicare, the ‘albatross’ of the stimulus, Obama’s coveted dream of a European style social democratic political project, the dismal employment numbers, precipitous housing price declines, and the ‘stewardship’ or ‘ideology’ question, as vital strategic considerations, yet the permanent state of war for The American Empire does not get, even, a casual mention, as needing any strategic attention from our aspiring Republican Party strategist and opinion monger. What can we, his readers, take from this glaring omission? Is TGD fully satisfied with President Obama’s foreign policy practice, or were consideration of space necessarily foreshortening? One is confident that a pronouncement on these vital issues will be forthcoming, one has a conviction that his critique will be of the ruthlessly categorical kind, delivered with his usual polemical brio, if my reading of his character is at all accurate.

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