Really??? Frum wrote THIS??? Wow.

Once again the irritating, yet necessary, 4 paragraph rule does not do this justice. READ IT!!

Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn't fix it
By David Frum, CNN Contributor
August 1, 2011 -- Updated 1142 GMT (1942 HKT)

...Only about one-third of Republicans agree that cutting government spending should be the country's top priority. Only about one-quarter of Republicans insist the budget be balanced without any tax increases...

SNIP

1) Unemployment is a more urgent problem than debt.

The U.S. can borrow money for 10 years at less than 3%. It can borrow money for two years at less than one-half a percent. Yes, the burden of debt is worrying. Yet lenders seem undaunted by those worries.

Meanwhile, more than 14 million Americans are out of work, more than 6 million for longer than six months. The United States has not seen so many people out of work for so long since the 1930s.

2) The deficit is a symptom of America's economic problems, not a cause...

MUCH MORE AT: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/01/frum.debt.republicans/index.html

Oh man, that's sad. I'm only laughing because of the absurdity!!!

to get this temporary crumb for a relatively few Americans,
and BROKE a MAJOR Campaign Promise to boot.
I hope he got a bag of Magic Beans too.



Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

while but he DID KEEP THE TAX BREAKS FOR ZILLIONAIRES!!! YIPPEE HOORAY! He's got his priorities. Frum hectoring the idiots is okay by me. Conyers saying OBAMA brought up cutting ss and Medicare isn't.

Way to keep the base energized! Way to go Mr. President!

It was a refreshing change of pace to see someone from the right acknowledge basic economics.

i would think that is a duh and all repugs did was piss off their own, .... which says something about duers being pissed off at our own, though it was the repugs

Frum is not an extremest by any account, he now sounds like an Eisenhower Republican

But then again, it's all relative to the extreme right wing of today. By traditional standards, he IS conservative.