GOP presidential candidates are arguing about which one hated the auto-industry bailout more. Though that may play well with some GOP primary voters, columnist and former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson thinks it is disingenuous. “Specific bailout policies can be disputed,” Gerson wrote, “but one fact cannot: No president — Republican or Democrat — would have allowed the economic collapse of the upper Midwest in the midst of a national economic panic. A conservatism that prefers ideology to reality is not particularly conservative.”
The proposed memorial to President Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., continues to draw criticism, especially for its statue of the 34th president as a boy and 80-foot metal “tapestries” depicting images from his Kansas childhood. Washington Post columnist George Will called the design “an exhibitionistic triumph of theory over function – more a monument to its creator, Frank Gehry, practitioner of architectural flamboyance, than to the most underrated president.” The Daily Beast’s David Frum added: “Go back to the drawing board. Shrink the monument’s footprint. Then hire a designer who has something to say about Eisenhower and his time.”
GOP presidential candidates are arguing about which one hated the auto-industry bailout more. Though that may play well with some GOP primary voters, columnist and former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson thinks it is disingenuous. “Specific bailout policies can be disputed,” Gerson wrote, “but one fact cannot: No president — Republican or Democrat — would have allowed the economic collapse of the upper Midwest in the midst of a national economic panic. A conservatism that prefers ideology to reality is not particularly conservative.”
