The other thing we know about establishment conservatives is they like stability. When Financial Markets are in meltdown, investors flock to the 30 year bonds. When political markets are in meltdown, they flock to the conservative candidate who looks like somebody who could govern. I dont think ben carson is going to be able to stand up under that scrutiny. I dont think ted cruz will appeal to the center. That means the winner of the rubiobush contest is going to be the nominee. Thank you very much, henry. One more quick question for you. Are there any lessons in scott walker and rick perrys demised for other candidates . Sell olsen rick perrys by date was november 2011. Scott walker i think has a lot of lessons. One is dont run as somebody you are not. Scott walker is not a voluble tea party person. He ran as the tea party candidate. What became clear in the debates and why he has had an unprecedented collapse in what his supporters were being sold as was not who he was. That came thr
Tectonic plates of politics undergird us. Theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last halfcentury of American Life, the. Ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading midcentury. He consensus liberali
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important becau
It is, why isnt the sec requiring public Issuer Companies to disclose this information . Do you have any plans to engage in a rulemaking on this issue any time soon . As you know, we have two petition actually still pending before the sec to require such disclosure. If, in fact, in a particular company the political spending is material under the law, under the law that would be required to be disclosed. The petition is broader than that. Tibl senator and others are aware were focused on our mandated rulemakings under the doddfrank act. I do note a number of companies have voluntarily made those disclosures and that subject can also be and often is the subject of a proxy proposal. Well, i appreciate where you say your focus is. But when 1 million i think its very rare that you get 1 million Public Comments in support of a proposal. And even if you look at Justice Kennedys majority opinion in Citizens United airlines which opened the floodgates for corporate election spending and presum
Representative massie, who is a tea party republican, who stands first and foremost for localism, would forget those principles when it came to the District Of Columbia. And try to interfere with local matters in this city. We had the same thing happen to another colleague, a republican from maryland, who should have known better, who has a particular distaste for the decriminalization of marijuana laws that is going on all over the United States, 18 states so far, legalization in two states. So he tries to get a law, indeed got a law that we now have kept from getting through block te, that would the districts recently passed marijuana decriminalization law. What this means is that there a ld be a fine rather than conviction for possessing marijuana. The district didnt do it by the way for the reasons that some states, the 1 states, perhaps some of them 18 states, perhaps some of them did it. Although some of them may have done it for the same reason we did it. Blacks and white use ma