Friedman misses the balanced conservatism of yore
(NEWSER) - With today's Republican Party being led around by Tea Party extremists, Thomas Friedman misses the adult supervision of George HW Bush, he writes in the New York Times . Calling him "one of our most underrated presidents," Friedman contends that Bush père brought foreign policy "deftness" and, more importantly, respect for science, pioneering cap-and-trade to bring down acid rain emissions. "I find it hard to look at today’s GOP without thinking how far it has drifted from the kind of balanced conservatism the elder Bush brought to politics," he writes. More»
