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.
