Interesting conversation between NY Times writers Douthat and Collins on which party is more corrupt.
Are Liberals More Corrupt? - The Conversation Blog - NYTimes.com
The starting point of the discussion is Dothat's piece in which he thinks that the Republicans, despite being written off for dead, may be very competitive in the liberal Northeast for quite sometime.
He's got some valid points. Texas, which looks downright means spirited in it's public spending, is in great economic shape while long time liberal strongholds like, NY and CA are economic disasters. CA's case being the worse in part because the Repubs exacerbated the revenue shortfall by attempting to starve government, rather than reform the tax base, but there's also no excusing the Dems profligacy.
Here's the article called Blue State Blues...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03douthat.html
Are Liberals More Corrupt? - The Conversation Blog - NYTimes.com
The starting point of the discussion is Dothat's piece in which he thinks that the Republicans, despite being written off for dead, may be very competitive in the liberal Northeast for quite sometime.
He's got some valid points. Texas, which looks downright means spirited in it's public spending, is in great economic shape while long time liberal strongholds like, NY and CA are economic disasters. CA's case being the worse in part because the Repubs exacerbated the revenue shortfall by attempting to starve government, rather than reform the tax base, but there's also no excusing the Dems profligacy.
Here's the article called Blue State Blues...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03douthat.html