Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
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Related The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH The claim of fine tuning is subjective. As I stated before, no measurement in physics is perfect. Th... G.M. JACKSON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three... JOHN BOLTON Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth i... KURT EICHENWALD What conservatives have realized during the last five years is that we have not elected a conservati... BILL LAUDERBACK The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we... GABE NEWELL You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind o... BRIT HUME Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned lon... BRIGITTE BARDOT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his ... JOHN PODHORETZ Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to '... BILL KRISTOL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.... ROBERT ZOELLICK There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civi... GARY OLDMAN Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning. RICK WAGONER It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it ... NATHAN LANE It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality... MICHAEL KINSLEY Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN I think it's worth noting, but our initial take is that it's more about fine tuning than about a maj... MARK SWARTZBERG Etiquette is the fine tuning of education NADINE VON CONRAD We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying ... DAVID SZE Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you ge... ED SHEERAN But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience. HAROLD BUDD The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine. GAIL DEVERS Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it. KEN CUCCINELLI What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp... TIMOTHY NOAH Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm headi... CLARENCE THOMAS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the ... CARL TOBIAS Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of de... THOMAS FRANK I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitmen... ELLEN DEGENERES I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athlet... SUSAN ORLEAN Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't ... CONOR MCGREGOR There are two or three areas which still need fine tuning. But my feeling is that we are close. WANG GUANGYA What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Se... PAT ROBERTSON Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market ec... PETER L. BERGER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get do... JEFF SESSIONS In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, never... FRANCIS SPUFFORD What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow ins... JAMES P. HOFFA All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that ... JAMES BOVARD I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a R... SHANNEN DOHERTY We were fine tuning some things and trying some new things to see how they work out for the conferen... GRETCHEN DEVROY The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy... BEN BERNANKE I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I do... BRIAN SANDOVAL Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of vo... RICK PERLSTEIN You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to... BERTRAND RUSSELL I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the... RICH LOWRY There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conserva... TED OLSON The market correctly saw that the economy was going to soften in the fourth quarter, MARC KLEE We're not real conservative but fairly conservative. Our thought is to try to spread the money out a... GERRY TREVISOL I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to t... DAVID BROCK I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger G... SUZANNE COLLINS What I've noticed is that statewide the Western Slope seems to have the strongest economy, and this ... BOBBY LIEB Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they ar... PAUL WEYRICH It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school. MIA KIRSHNER I've always believed that immigration reform is important, but it won't decide the White Hou... RAUL LABRADOR Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, m... DANA PERINO The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. DALE CARNEGIE The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation DALE CARNEGIE If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com... JACQUES DERRIDA I think what you want to do is also focus on companies that are making the transition from old econo... COURTNEY SMITH Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people... JOHN STUART MILL It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ... SALMAN RUSHDIE We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to s... STEPHEN HARPER Harper has hugged the center. What Americans should expect is a centrist Conservative who is quite d... WARREN KINSELLA Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk... CAMILLE PAGLIA We are still fine-tuning the programming. But we are bringing local news back. JULIE LAIRD Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - b... NANCY GIBBS Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like &... SETH SHOSTAK The smarter conservatives, in my view, probably know that a lot of the things they're saying are not... JOE CONASON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequ... VERNOR VINGE The argument in the bond market is not that it's inflationary but it's a drag on disposable income, ... HENLEY SMITH As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and... GROVER NORQUIST You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step i... WILLIAM LASHNER If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's govern... RON JOHNSON With this action, in one fell swoop, the president deprived himself and his supporters of the easies... BILL KRISTOL With this action, in one fell swoop, the president deprived himself and his supporters of the easies... BILL KRISTOL You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the... STEFFI GRAF But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON 'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
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