Over at Politico, Joe reinforced some of the points he made on Morning Joe Monday:
In the New York Times this Sunday, author Kevin Baker echoed the sentiment of most in the mainstream media that the Republican Party’s biggest problem over the past few years has been a lurch to the right. When you judge the party by its bottom line, the fact is that the GOP has not been conservative enough.
What is too conservative about spending the past decade doubling the national debt?
How is an unpaid for $7 trillion Medicare expansion a run to the right?Will most historians look back on a party who promised to end tyranny across the globe, use American troops as the world’s 9-1-1 and engage in nation building on an unprecedented level consider Bush Republicans too conservative or too Wilsonian? Don’t waste your time answering. The verdict is obvious.
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And for all the weeping and gnashing of teeth I have had to endure over the radicalism of this tea party Congress, to my worried liberal friends I say “take a valium and relax.” This right wing, radical, reactionary tea party crew has meekly gone along with their statist party leaders far too often for my tastes. As a result, they added $1 trillion to the national debt their first year in power and got outmaneuvered by President Barack Obama at every turn.
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