Gary tied in the GOP Rebuild the Party site, with a report Newt Gringrich wants to get back into the bigger cashflows, or as he apparently has discretely hinted, to head the NRC.
Rebuild the Party clearly is not a tax exempt attempt, while the New American Foundation was founded with such status in mind, see the Politico article tying together it, Obama, and one of his economic advisors on stage during a speech, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
It looks as if talk radio is being superseded, Rush and Janet Robert headed for the scrap heap and all. Well, there's always a silver lining. Talk radio is for, well, those who like it - I will forego a judgmental comment.
Gary's article is interesting in that it mentions Newt's Contract on America, his huckestering device to delude people away from sound voting, but doing it without any Dobsonian mention of Jesus, and He and His dad leaning toward the GOP tent as Dobson views things.
Lo, the New American Foundation site has its own non-blank icon in the FireFox tab bar, unlike the lower tech icon-free Save our Party, Rebuild it, whatever. So it is the leader there, but it also is a follower by having its own Contract, the approach worded a bit differently then Newt's one hit wonder, but it still resonates up an image of Newt and his perfect hair, see here the Next Social Contract, which perhaps resonates John Locke with some people more than Gingrich, those having a historic timescale and learning, but in our times as with Google return lists, recentness counts.
I have not read any of that stuff. I invite a reader with time to review things in a pleasant comment. I'm going to tap out a cup of coffee since it's just finished brewing, and return to the keyboard to search for Norm Coleman scandal updates, the more lurid or even salacious, the better.
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With regard to web layout and BS, compare this from the Next Social Contract:
[...] Most see FDR’s New Deal as the foundation of America's current social contract--the complex, largely unwritten deal between workers, employers, and government that gives individuals the security they need to navigate a dynamic economy. As with even a well-built house, 75 years have taken their toll on this version of the social contract. Its foundation remains strong, but fundamental repairs are needed. And the neighborhood has changed around it in ways that none of its framers could have imagined. [...]
A New Narrative
Through a program of research and analysis, the Next Social Contract Initiative will construct a meta-narrative to help us understand how the American social contract has evolved, why it fails to meet our needs today, and how we can reinvent it for the conditions of a largely postindustrial and increasingly diverse society. Without an understanding of the evolution of our social contract, major institutional reform will be difficult at best and impossible at worst.
The meta-narrative will have two main dimensions. The first will show how new institutional arrangements are better suited to today's social and economic realities than the patchwork policies left over from our recent past. The second will explain why such new arrangements reflect shared American values while making the American public more secure and our society both stronger and healthier.
with this, from the Project for a New American Century:
In the abstract, each title sounds kind of nice. The devil is in the details. Am I the only one turned off by anyone posturing a "meta-this" or a "meta-that" or is new speak more firmly rooted these days than I would like? How's this, "We suggest a compilation, a confluence of meta-suggestion, meta-ideology, meta-premises, and meta-history to coherently yet tersely yield our brand of meta-Koolaid." It fits either website, at least upon superficial examination. And this IS Bush-Presidency America, where examination beyond the superficial is a rarity. Any reader thoughts?
The other term that grates quite a bit, "think tank." Rand was and still is deserving that label, but Cato Institute, others, what about the term "manure tank?"
Much mischief, deficit spending for five years of chaos in Iraq, etc., has come from the New American Century neocon ideologues, but only because they were listened to. We can only guess at the New Social Contract, but if it is spread the wealth, what's wrong with that, unless you've got lots of it, it is your wealth, and you want to keep it greedily concentrated, not spread? And with thoughts of spreading, back to the manure tanks, staying stored in the tanks, it does no good, but when spread it fosters growth of the crop. The devil, again, is in the details of the crop intended to flourish. Neocon, Chicago School, there have been crop failures. And as a final parting shot, not just any kind of crop failures, GOP crop failures. Go Al. Win the recount.
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On this New Social Contract webpage is a killer for a site that's supposed to be think-tank reliable - screwed up links.
Recent, NSC-Related Commentary by New America Staff
* New America Health Policy Program Director Len Nichols is featured in this LA Times article on his just-released study on employer healthcare costs and their effect on American competitiveness. The bottom line, rising health care costs threaten the ability of American busineeses to compete in an increasingly globalized world and threaten the stability of middle-class jobs.
Two bad links in that short item, and I'd bet Len Nichols would rather they fix it.
I tracked down the one pdf item, the proper link is here, although the site webmaster could either redo the link or post the item at the link as given.
The second link, who knows, although I have found this link.
I had to do this google, and that yielded some interesting links, for those interested in the healthcare issue as I am, here, here, here, here, here, here and here (this not being on healthcare, but Big Ideas, and since little ones are uninteresting, let's see their idea of Big).
I will send those Next Big Thing folks an email, linking to this post, telling them to check the end, so they can fix bad links on their website. The bad links ended up yielding more good stuff than had the initial links worked and I had stopped at that. Go figure.