Left, Right, and Center; America and Britain

"Maddow and Paul agree on probably 90 per cent of the BIG issues confronting us, from ending the drug and Afghan war, to ending bail outs & aid to Israel," says CounterPunch's Jeffrey St Clair, quoted by CounterPunch's Alexander Cockburn — The Rand and Rachel Show. "But because of their own peculiar prejudices, his doctrinaire libertarian, hers PC progressive, neither of them can talk about anything other than a non-issue such as the Civil Rights Act of 19 -- SIXTY-FOUR," continues Mr. St. Clair. "It's like a Dadaist play."

Glenn Greenwald, who has "written numerous times about the serious left-right coalition that had emerged in Britain -- between the Tories and Liberal Democrats -- in opposition to the Labour Government's civil liberties abuses," says, "Now that this left-right, Tory/Lib-Dem alliance has removed the Labour Party from power and is governing Britain, these commitments to restoring core liberties -- Actual Change -- show no sign of retreating" — The Brits Beat Us to It. "Rather than cynically tossing these promises of restrained government power onto the trash pile of insincere campaign rhetoric, they are implementing them into actual policy."

"This is so misleading and offensive that I don’t quite know where to begin," says Daniel Larison of the laughable David Brooks' laughable lament that "these days, the political center is a feckless shell" — The Poor, Suffering “Centrists”. "There is nothing more precious and absurd than the 'centrist' pretense that the political extremes dominate our politics," writes Mr,. Larison. "Please, tell progressives that they dictate the content of health care and environment policy, and tell Rand Paul’s supporters that they are the ones who influence monetary, fiscal and foreign policies."