April 7th, 2010 12:40 pm
In Defense of the Perpetual Campaign
John Podhoretz pens a spirited defense of sharp-elbowed partisan politics in his piece for Commentary today. After noting that treating politics as war helps to avoid war itself, Podhoretz crystallizes President Barack Obama’s knee-jerk reaction to claim that “the time for talk is over” whenever he hears criticism. For President Obama, politics is talking; governing is doing.
The problem for Obama, as Podhoretz points out, is that Republicans in Congress and members of the Tea Party movement agree: the time to engage Democrats as honest partners in public policy is long past gone. The time for organizing and campaigning against their Statist agenda is now.
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