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The Spectacle Blog
Liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias notes that the top economic advisor to John McCain's failed presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, is whining again:
Holtz-Eakin is . . . developing a proposal for a new think tank that he describes as a "Center for American Progress for the right" - a reference to the liberal think tank that has supplied staff and policy proposals to the Obama administration and developed new ways to market its ideas. . . .
The irony, of course, is that the Center for American Progress itself was developed as a liberal answer to the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that has been a source of Republican policy ideas for decades. But Holtz-Eakin says established think tanks of the right, like Heritage and the American Enterprise Institute, were "not helpful" during the McCain campaign because they weren't politically engaged or innovative in their media strategies.
Or maybe conservative think thanks weren't "helpful" because John McCain didn't take their advice, because John McCain is not a conservative. Loser.
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Ben Bruce| 5.27.09 @ 11:59AM
Heritage, and especially AEI have come up with many good proposals. AEI has been particularly good on the financial crisis. I really see no need for yet another think tank dedicated to "progress" ...
Pingback| 5.27.09 @ 3:27PM
Center For Heritage Cato Enterprise Century Institute Foundation « Around The Sphere links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Quin| 5.27.09 @ 4:43PM
Dougie is indeed one of the biggest losers around. His personal picque at Chrix Cox, based on Cox's perfectly reasonable insistence that Dougie-boy take a bit of dynamic economics into his "scoring" of the federal budget, led John McCain -- previously on record as a big Cox fan -- to embarrass himself and inspire tremendous ill will by blaming Cox for the economic "crisis" last fall, even though McCain was blaming Cox for NOT doing something that Cox already was under fire for ALREADY having done. Go figure. And that was all Dougie-boy's doing. After helping McCain act like a chicken sans head during the economic crisis (not just about Cox but in general), which cost Johnny Mac the election, Mr. H-E's first (or, if not that, the first BIG) post-election appearance was at AEI, on a panel discussion, where he was most graciously received. And now he has the nerve to effectively "dis" AEI by calling for yet another center-right think tank?!? To his imbecility and personal pettiness we thus add evidence of lack of due gratitude for favors granted even while utterly undeserved.
Memo to rock: Make crawl space underneath, into which Mr. Holtz-Eakin can crawl.
Trackback| 5.27.09 @ 9:48PM
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Holtz-Eakin ..., on john mccain, links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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