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Do we have a party of principle? What are the principles?

Do we even have men of principle? What are those principles?

Are you a Big Tent Republican? Does big tent preclude principle? Reagan’s big tent philosophy is often cited as reason to avoid getting bogged down in policy debates. Or for failing to excommunicate RINO’s. Did Reagan have no principles?

I have asked here before if there is even one principle to which conservatives can agree one must be bound to be accepted into the fold. I have not yet heard the response that was more than a vague exercise in goals.

Conservatives are for smaller [...]

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This is the perfect opportunity to see one. The FED is in talks to sell assets to your mutual fund manager for later repurchase by the FED. If you have money in a mutual fund you are getting ready to buy FED assets in a huge way. Since the number of people and countries willing to buy US debt is falling they have to find some way to continue selling FED securities. In this case in the name of removing an excess of liquidity caused by an excess of ink and paper being FED into a printing press.

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday charted ways the Fed might withdraw record monetary stimulus pumped [...]

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