Old Minority

The amusing thing about New Majority is that it styles itself as representing creative and new conservative ideas, but routinely churns out some of the most hidebound conventional stuff imaginable on many of the policies where the conventional position has badly damaged the reputation of conservatism and the GOP. Take, for example, John Gardner’s complaint that Obama has signed the omnibus appropriations bill that contains a provision that “revents implementation of a provision in NAFTA that permits properly licensed Mexican trucking companies from operating throughout the United States.” This is the sort of thing pro-sovereignty conservatives have been insisting onfor years, and in the end it comes from the Obama administration and a Democratic majority in Congress. At least those reform conservatives who are indifferent to border security and controlling illegal immigration are being consistent in their hostility to this rule, but why anyone else would want to oppose a provision that improves border security and highway safety will have to remain a mystery.