Warnernomics
The other day, Nathan Newman offered what seemed to me to be an extremely cogent critique of Mark Warner's thinking about economic policy. I brought it up during a recent diavlog with Ed Kilgore, but he said Nathan and I were misconstruing what Warner's all about and described Warner as holding a much more congenial view of the situation. On a somewhat related note, I should mention that Prospect subscribers (whose ranks you should consider joining) can read Bob Kuttner's article about Tom Vilsak's efforts to forge a DLC/union rapprochement, which strikes me as an important task that I'm glad someone's putting effort into.
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I think you are reading way too much into something not being said. The idea that a serious Dem candidate for president isn't going to advance his economic policies far beyond the primordial state of whatever current policy you are imputing to him is somewhat ridiculous. I think the odds Warner agrees that, say, the minimum wage should be increased, and, to take an example from Kuttner's TAP article, we should adopt card check in favor of the alternative (sign up for a union and get fired before the vote), are extremely high, approaching a certainty.
I believe some patience is required here. Besides, if you really think his economic policies are going to make or break his campaign, you may need to consider early retirement from punditry.
June 26, 2006 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink