Saturday, September 28, 2013
What is to be done?
The ruling classes need to promote rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate CR cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem. Who cares about the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner doing such a lousy and thankless job, almost anyone might do a better job, giving in to terrorist encourages terrorism.
During the general strike in UK during the depression of the 1930's Churchill rejected the idea of negotiations with the strike leaders as non-negotiation was critical to saving a constitutional electoral system. If the government gave into blackmail the system would no longer be one where elections decided who rules but power went to the street, unions, mob passions; as happens in France, and to passionate minorities as in the House of Representatives.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
We, this nation of ours, need quickly to create a brains trust with contacts with the chamber of commerce, business round-table, main line Republicans, democratic activist and main line elected officials, political and marketing consultants, non-profit foundations, the Rockefeller, Pew, DuPont Sloan, Ford, family foundations - to targets and promote with money and organization rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate it cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem.
Death and Rebirth of Seneca The story of Paradigm, gestalt death and rebirth
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis,
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II,
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognized the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianism of the 20th century.[7]
While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity.[8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behavior but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterizing the metropolitan mental stance.[10]
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
Clark Clifford was a lawyer-lobbyist, like the handful of men who preceeded him in the field or were his peers (Tommy "the Cork" Corcoran, Abe Fortas, James Rowe), and like the thousands of men and women who have since flourished on K Street. These formed the brains trust or kitchen cabinet working with inside and outside groups to form compromises that can work. The core of the first Roosevelt brain trust consisted of a group of Columbia law professors (Moley, Tugwell, and Berle). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal (1933). Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists. (list below of brain trust)
The core of the second Roosevelt brain trust sprang from men associated with the Harvard law school (Cohen, Corcoran, and Frankfurter). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the Second New Deal (1935–1936).
The capture of the House of Representatives by a pathological tribal cabal that has over powered a weak leadership, now threatens the national welfare. The question of who if anyone rules, is there a functional ruling class that can impose order on the wing nuts.
In practice this means a focus on the 60 members in congress that are the immediate cause of a clear and present danger to the welfare of the nation. The ways used to deal with a dangerous domestic enemy involve the actualization of social power by the ruling elites.
The new deal formed irregular committees to push programs and ward off enemies. A small group spearheaded social security, another the secret war against Germany.
Clark Clifford: The Rise of a Reputation
By Marjorie Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
The climax of Clifford's service to Truman came with the hairsbreadth victory of 1948. Clifford was widely perceived as the author of Truman's impossible, come-from-behind win, including the grueling "whistle-stop" train tour. After it, he decided to leave the White House and strike out on his own.
All power in Washington ultimately flows from politics. Thus his role in the 1948 election, observes another Democratic lawyer, "launched him into the absolute most upper echelons of the Washington power scene. And he knew how to handle that. He knew how to get there, and he knew what it took to stay there. ... He knew what he could be, and he became it."
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world and the source of its success.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, it failed to find a publisher in the United States and was first printed in London by Routledge in 1945. The work criticises theories of teleological historicism in which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws, and indicts as totalitarian Plato, Hegel and Marx for relying on historicism to underpin their political philosophies[citation needed]. It was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.[1]
However,“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”the dream-time is to open gates on the old brain, which is as animals think – we can call id passions to survive, reproduce and multiply. Id,ego and super-egoare the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] Thesuper-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2]Civilization and its discontents –causing Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoi.
Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts, and spirits.
What is to be done?
http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1
We need a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. When we re-examines the coming disaster we remember Lincoln,
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862)
The failure to understand and deal with what is going on is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
In light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through and a reflection on the challenges that confront it. It will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.
https://sites.google.com/site/colorcodedpath/
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
https://sites.google.com/site/bobbysvillasbali/
https://sites.google.com/site/synergyebook1995/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/consciousness
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
A little ahead of the news:
We are seeing another Kabuki musical theater, a classical Japanese dance-drama being acted out in today's congressional and wing nut politics. Kabuki theater is known for the symbolization of its drama by actors with elaborate stage characters, makeup and costumes of the stylized performers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-bgSFJiKc
Really Kabuki is more than an analogy, but a realistic presentation of moral conflict with its psychodrama or melodrama of strong human emotions.
Kabuki is often referred to as superficial, phony, and out of date. None of this is true, it is deeply meaningful, and ahead of the times. The failure to understand is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
Where have all the moderates gone, sometime dreaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Leadership_Council#Board_members
RLCC describes its supporters and candidates as practical, "traditional Republicans"[3], in the manner of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. RLCC's strategy is heavily focused on achieving long-term electoral gains for moderate Republicans for legislative, congressional, and other high offices by building a strong bench of moderate Republicans elected to local offices in the bluest parts of California.
http://www.gop.gov/republicans/leadership
The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan, an unsuccessful challenger to incumbent President George H.W. Bush, gave a controversial address which has become known as the "culture war" speech.
The great GOP leadership turnaround
By Dana Milbank,September 18, 2013
As House Republican backbenchers hurtle toward a government shutdown and a default on the national debt, their leaders remain in charge in title only.
Founding members of the CRG included financier Lewis M. Eisenberg, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Representative Susan Molinari (NY-14), Representative Richard A. Zimmer (NJ-12), Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, and Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland. The organization departed notably from the Republican Party platform by including a pro-choice position on abortion in its "guiding principles."
In 1997, the organization renamed the Republican Leadership Council in a nod to its Democratic counterpart, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. The RLC dropped its embattled stance on abortion in favor of a neutral affirmation of the importance of "protecting individual rights" and "promoting strong families." Governor John Engler of Michigan and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, Republicans who favored a pro-life position, were recruited to model a more inclusive position on the issue of abortion. Financier Henry Kravis and John A. Moran, former Kansas Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, 1996 campaign finance chairman, were named as the organization's co-chairs.
The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior? Soc Rel are social-biology relations;
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millenniumis a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
First New Deal[edit]
Adolf Berle - original Brain Trust
Hugh S. Johnson
Raymond Moley - original Brain Trust (Moley broke with Roosevelt and became a sharp critic of the New Deal from the right)
Basil O'Connor
Rexford Tugwell - original Brain Trust
Frances Perkins
Harry Hopkins
Harold L. Ickes
Louis Brandeis
James Warburg - original Brain Trust[citation needed]
Second New Deal[edit]
Benjamin V. Cohen - 2nd New Deal
Thomas Gardiner Corcoran - 2nd New Deal
Felix Frankfurter - 2nd New Deal
Other Advisers[edit]
Louis Howe
Paul M. O'Leary[3]
George Peek
Charles William Taussig
Robert F. Wagner
F. Palmer Weber
See also[edit]
Kitchen Cabinet
During the general strike in UK during the depression of the 1930's Churchill rejected the idea of negotiations with the strike leaders as non-negotiation was critical to saving a constitutional electoral system. If the government gave into blackmail the system would no longer be one where elections decided who rules but power went to the street, unions, mob passions; as happens in France, and to passionate minorities as in the House of Representatives.
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
We, this nation of ours, need quickly to create a brains trust with contacts with the chamber of commerce, business round-table, main line Republicans, democratic activist and main line elected officials, political and marketing consultants, non-profit foundations, the Rockefeller, Pew, DuPont Sloan, Ford, family foundations - to targets and promote with money and organization rational conservative primary candidates in the districts of trouble makers and dangerous fools; a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers. In the Senate it cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill. The 200 democrats in the house need only 18 of the 233 republicans to solve the problem.
Death and Rebirth of Seneca The story of Paradigm, gestalt death and rebirth
Anthony Wallace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 -
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society -
The origins of the TEA party - tribal traditions in fundamentalism
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis,
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II,
Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3]
When people in groups face serious changes in the paradigms they live by and are threaten in their essence that make a culture what it fundamentally is, and without which it loses its identity. The white southern men of the silent majority of the ongoing culture wars against liberals and secularization, integration, feminism, the counter culture, the rise of scientific methods over the traditional authority of religion.
For its advocates, government in the open society is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4]
Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, so that individuals are unlikely to challenge traditions they believe to have a sacred or magical basis, the beginnings of an open society are marked by a distinction between natural and man-made religious belief).[5]law, and an increase in personal responsibility and accountability for moral choices (not incompatible with religion)
Popper argues that the ideas of individuality, criticism, and humanitarianism cannot be suppressed once people become aware of them, and therefore that it is impossible to return to the closed society;[6] but at the same time recognized the continuing emotional pull of what he called “the lost group spirit of tribalism”, as manifested for example in the totalitarianism of the 20th century.[7]
While the period since Popper's study has undoubtedly been marked by the spread of the open society, this may be attributed less to Popper's advocacy and more to the role of the economic advances of late modernity.[8] Growth-based industrial societies require literacy, anonymity and social mobility from their members[9] - elements incompatible with much traditional-based behavior but demanding the ever wider spread of the abstract social relations Georg Simmel saw as characterizing the metropolitan mental stance.[10]
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
Clark Clifford was a lawyer-lobbyist, like the handful of men who preceeded him in the field or were his peers (Tommy "the Cork" Corcoran, Abe Fortas, James Rowe), and like the thousands of men and women who have since flourished on K Street. These formed the brains trust or kitchen cabinet working with inside and outside groups to form compromises that can work. The core of the first Roosevelt brain trust consisted of a group of Columbia law professors (Moley, Tugwell, and Berle). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal (1933). Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists. (list below of brain trust)
The core of the second Roosevelt brain trust sprang from men associated with the Harvard law school (Cohen, Corcoran, and Frankfurter). These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the Second New Deal (1935–1936).
The capture of the House of Representatives by a pathological tribal cabal that has over powered a weak leadership, now threatens the national welfare. The question of who if anyone rules, is there a functional ruling class that can impose order on the wing nuts.
In practice this means a focus on the 60 members in congress that are the immediate cause of a clear and present danger to the welfare of the nation. The ways used to deal with a dangerous domestic enemy involve the actualization of social power by the ruling elites.
The new deal formed irregular committees to push programs and ward off enemies. A small group spearheaded social security, another the secret war against Germany.
Clark Clifford: The Rise of a Reputation
By Marjorie Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
The climax of Clifford's service to Truman came with the hairsbreadth victory of 1948. Clifford was widely perceived as the author of Truman's impossible, come-from-behind win, including the grueling "whistle-stop" train tour. After it, he decided to leave the White House and strike out on his own.
All power in Washington ultimately flows from politics. Thus his role in the 1948 election, observes another Democratic lawyer, "launched him into the absolute most upper echelons of the Washington power scene. And he knew how to handle that. He knew how to get there, and he knew what it took to stay there. ... He knew what he could be, and he became it."
Reason and the scientific methods are the critical elements in the enlightenment from 500 years ago and define the character of the modern world and the source of its success.
The Open Society and Its Enemies is a two-volume work on political philosophy by Karl Popper. Written during World War II, it failed to find a publisher in the United States and was first printed in London by Routledge in 1945. The work criticises theories of teleological historicism in which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws, and indicts as totalitarian Plato, Hegel and Marx for relying on historicism to underpin their political philosophies[citation needed]. It was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.[1]
However,“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”the dream-time is to open gates on the old brain, which is as animals think – we can call id passions to survive, reproduce and multiply. Id,ego and super-egoare the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends sex and death; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] Thesuper-ego can stop you from doing certain things that your id may want you to do.[2]Civilization and its discontents –causing Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoi.
Myths and old stories are the shadow of dream-time and in Plato's tale of the cave of shadows
Modern marketing includes policy, politicians, value making, seeing things, hearing things, that give magical powers to the shades of past and future ghosts, and spirits.
What is to be done?
http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1
We need a critical examination of new developments in contemporary political theory: post-Marxism, discourse analysis, new theories of ideology and power, hegemony, radical democracy and psychoanalytic theory. When we re-examines the coming disaster we remember Lincoln,
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.." Second State of the Union address (1862)
The failure to understand and deal with what is going on is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
In light of these developments in theory to suggest new ways of thinking about politics through and a reflection on the challenges that confront it. It will be of great interest to students of postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in political science, philosophy, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.
https://sites.google.com/site/colorcodedpath/
https://sites.google.com/site/dynamicsynergyworkshop/
https://sites.google.com/site/bobbysvillasbali/
https://sites.google.com/site/synergyebook1995/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/
https://sites.google.com/site/wiredbrain/consciousness
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
A little ahead of the news:
We are seeing another Kabuki musical theater, a classical Japanese dance-drama being acted out in today's congressional and wing nut politics. Kabuki theater is known for the symbolization of its drama by actors with elaborate stage characters, makeup and costumes of the stylized performers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-bgSFJiKc
Really Kabuki is more than an analogy, but a realistic presentation of moral conflict with its psychodrama or melodrama of strong human emotions.
Kabuki is often referred to as superficial, phony, and out of date. None of this is true, it is deeply meaningful, and ahead of the times. The failure to understand is a fault of framing the interpretation. The assignment of meaning to the symbols in formal languages are as used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.
The plot is about social status and identity rather than policy. The policy discussions followed by the media pundits are not the irrational stillness as it appears. The right wing is associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns modern, secular, scientific existence in favor of an imaginary past, before uppity gays, blacks and women appeared in today's complex realities. A true believer have no loyalties, and no purpose , except perhaps, an impulse to destroy. The causes are because of the anomie, the general mood of despair at the perceived pointlessness of modern existence. The radical right, white southern, males rebel against the realization that in today's society there has been a loss of traditional norms, rules, or laws that protected their self image and social standing.
https://sites.google.com/site/dreamtimepolitics/
Where have all the moderates gone, sometime dreaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Leadership_Council#Board_members
RLCC describes its supporters and candidates as practical, "traditional Republicans"[3], in the manner of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. RLCC's strategy is heavily focused on achieving long-term electoral gains for moderate Republicans for legislative, congressional, and other high offices by building a strong bench of moderate Republicans elected to local offices in the bluest parts of California.
http://www.gop.gov/republicans/leadership
The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan, an unsuccessful challenger to incumbent President George H.W. Bush, gave a controversial address which has become known as the "culture war" speech.
The great GOP leadership turnaround
By Dana Milbank,September 18, 2013
As House Republican backbenchers hurtle toward a government shutdown and a default on the national debt, their leaders remain in charge in title only.
Founding members of the CRG included financier Lewis M. Eisenberg, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Representative Susan Molinari (NY-14), Representative Richard A. Zimmer (NJ-12), Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, and Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland. The organization departed notably from the Republican Party platform by including a pro-choice position on abortion in its "guiding principles."
In 1997, the organization renamed the Republican Leadership Council in a nod to its Democratic counterpart, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. The RLC dropped its embattled stance on abortion in favor of a neutral affirmation of the importance of "protecting individual rights" and "promoting strong families." Governor John Engler of Michigan and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, Republicans who favored a pro-life position, were recruited to model a more inclusive position on the issue of abortion. Financier Henry Kravis and John A. Moran, former Kansas Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, 1996 campaign finance chairman, were named as the organization's co-chairs.
The questions that these sites approximately and virtually encounter is how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern political economies;
Can traditions such as Sufi, Platonist, Stoicism, guide us as how to model social behavior? Soc Rel are social-biology relations;
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millenniumis a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9)
First New Deal[edit]
Adolf Berle - original Brain Trust
Hugh S. Johnson
Raymond Moley - original Brain Trust (Moley broke with Roosevelt and became a sharp critic of the New Deal from the right)
Basil O'Connor
Rexford Tugwell - original Brain Trust
Frances Perkins
Harry Hopkins
Harold L. Ickes
Louis Brandeis
James Warburg - original Brain Trust[citation needed]
Second New Deal[edit]
Benjamin V. Cohen - 2nd New Deal
Thomas Gardiner Corcoran - 2nd New Deal
Felix Frankfurter - 2nd New Deal
Other Advisers[edit]
Louis Howe
Paul M. O'Leary[3]
George Peek
Charles William Taussig
Robert F. Wagner
F. Palmer Weber
See also[edit]
Kitchen Cabinet
