re: #138 ArmyWife

Sort of. We need to back to the roots of the party, and that means being conservative fiscally.

Let’s clarify what it means to be “conservative fiscally”. A lot of libloons think that means the Republicans never want to spend anything at all (at least outside of Halliburton), and there are too many Republicans who agree with that, citing free market ideas. Well, of course, it’s an exaggeration, unless you’re Luap Nor, and even he may not be against, say, street lights and municipal sewer systems.

And now we come to health care.

The Republicans have to have a plan to, yes, spend, on the government’s dime (and yes, I know it’s really the citizens’ dimes, but even so), because that’s just where we are these days. We make the street lights work, so OK health care will be a little more complicated, but let’s take it on and do it, and stop claiming it cannot be done.

I’d like “fiscally conservative” to mean “fiscally rational”, not miserly.

And isn’t that just the roots of the party, in Lincoln’s time when the Republicans were pro-technology (hey progressive?!), that allowed them to be anti-slavery?

Isn’t this the sort of point that zombie has agonized over several times?