Two very interesting Op-Eds I found today:

This one is from the Christian Science Monitor and how the Republicans should look more towards Eisenhower (whom I consider the second-best post-FDR President). I'm not sure I agree with all (or even most) of it, but it is interesting nonetheless, and something I don't think I've heard before. Excerpt:

Yet Mr. Eisenhower was also characterized by virtues that have been completely forgotten by the Bush administration. He was tough when necessary, but also extremely prudent.

He successfully opposed calls for preventive war against the Soviet Union and China. As he told a press conference, he had personally experienced "the job of writing letters by the hundreds, by the thousands, to bereaved mothers and wives. This is a very sobering experience."

This one is from the WSJ, and details how Senators Rockefeller and Snowe are using gag techniques on Exxon-Mobil over global warming:

This is amazing stuff. On the one hand, the Senators say that everyone agrees on the facts and consequences of climate change. But at the same time they are so afraid of debate that they want Exxon to stop financing a doughty band of dissenters who can barely get their name in the paper. We respect the folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but we didn't know until reading the Rockefeller-Snowe letter that they ran U.S. climate policy and led the mainstream media around by the nose, too. Congratulations.

Posted by Ryan S. on Monday, December 04, 2006 at 7:57 PM | Permalink |