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His new site is online and I know Quin Hillyer will be excited to see that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is among the featured contributors.

Frum is interviewed by James Poulos at Culture11 today.

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J David| 1.21.09 @ 12:18PM

Juan "Petain" McVain will be pleased to hear Frumpy will be giving his RINO herd the props they need to kneel and give service before their new commie-lib overlords.

J David| 1.21.09 @ 12:19PM

France, no doubt, hearts Juan and his knee-pad bi-partisanship...

Alexander A.K. Hoggsbuckel IV| 1.21.09 @ 12:28PM

David Frum is a nitwit.

james23| 1.21.09 @ 12:48PM

Wow, you have to hand it to David Frum. Not even Billy Mays could sell RIN-ism in the immediate aftermath of George Bush and John McCain.

Bob| 1.21.09 @ 1:06PM

NewMajority is a great site. The logic is good, the ideology is minimal, and reason is in vast supply. All the things that this site misses....

Thomas| 1.21.09 @ 1:25PM

I had a few minutes of free time and checked out the NewMajority website. It looks to be an interesting read. Unfortunately, it appears to be following the tone of NRO and the Weekly Standard. I'll have to put it on my reading list.

Hitchens| 1.21.09 @ 1:32PM

The godless everywhere *heart* the utter void of principle(morality) that is Frum's new prostration to our betters in the Progressive (Communist) revolution!

Sean| 1.21.09 @ 1:44PM

"JP: What's the biggest obstacle to the kind of change NewMajority's working toward?
DF: The natural instinct of defeated parties to recoil upon their base. It's the instinct that led the GOP to nominate Goldwater after Nixon, and the Democrats to nominate McGovern after Humphrey and then Mondale after Carter."

I guess we should then look to people like George W. Bush and John McCain to lead our party some more. Some more people that claim they are conservative and then proceed to out do Democrats in expanding our debt and increasing spending not to mention creating more entitlement programs. God forbid if we actually look for people that are actually conservative. Obama sounds like Frum's perfect candidate for the Republican party. Just change his party name and he will fit right in.

Quin| 1.21.09 @ 4:41PM

Oddly enough, I like Holtz-Eakin's piece. I think almost all of his analysis is right on target. And other than his refusal to take enough account of dynamic scoring, I had previously had respect for him. But his score-settling contribution to John McCain's half-cocked scapegoating during the credit crunch in September, combined with his/McCain's utter cluelessness about what they were talking about, made it clear that Dougie H-E is a low-life.
Which means that I am now agreeing with the column of a low-life. I feel dirty. I think I'll go scrub off.

sidnee| 12.12.09 @ 12:07PM

jack wills
ugg new arrivals

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