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Brian4Liberty
10-25-2015, 02:05 PM
Baby Kristol - Yuval Levin is the right’s new favorite intellectual (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112745/yuval-levin-rights-new-irving-kristol)
By Marc Tracy


Paul Ryan works in a man cave in the Longworth House Office Building. It is bedecked with the paraphernalia of the football teams he loves, the Wisconsin Badgers and the Green Bay Packers. Last year, I visited the lair of the Republican Party’s philosopher prince to ask about his own personal philosopher, a 35-year-old named Yuval Levin.
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After graduating from American University, he enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought—a cradle of neoconservative thinking.
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Despite his youth, Levin had been anointed the next great neoconservative. And in 2009, Bill Kristol gave him a title to match those expectations. Four years earlier, Kristol’s father, Irving Kristol, had shuttered his legendary journal, The Public Interest. But with Obama’s victory, Kristol the Younger found himself longing to revive his dad’s publication. “The end of the Bush administration showed that conservatism wasn’t strong politically and even intellectually,” Kristol says. So he followed the old dictum: When intellectuals have nothing left to do, they start a magazine. Levin was appointed the editor of the new effort, National Affairs.
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National Affairs aspires to the same spirit of intellectual independence. Its articles typically point toward contemporary conservatism’s failure to address socioeconomic immobility. “People like to live in a country that takes care of needy and vulnerable people—that’s the kind of community we want to be a part of,” Levin explains. It’s a style that has earned him the highest praise any aspiring neoconservative can receive. Paul Ryan gushes, “He is the Irving Kristol of our time. The Irving.”

But what does it mean to be the Irving Kristol of our time? Like Kristol, Levin doesn’t want to explicitly demolish the welfare state.
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Levin, indeed, has spoken sympathetically of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.” His arguments about debt sound as if they belong to the sensible center of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.
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More: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112745/yuval-levin-rights-new-irving-kristol

Brian4Liberty
10-25-2015, 02:10 PM
Dan Senor:

Who Whispers in Paul Ryan’s Ear? (http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/paul-ryan-speaker-inner-circle/)


Dan Senor (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/senor_dan), a former George W. Bush administration official now working on Wall Street, is also close after serving as a top policy adviser for the Romney-Ryan ticket.


Dan Senor is an investment banker and neoconservative pundit.
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After leaving the Bush administration, Senor—who is the spouse of former CNN anchorwoman Campbell Brown—became a guest commentator on foreign policy issues for Fox News and a private equity executive. He co-founded the investment firm Rosemont Capital LLC before joining Elliott Management, the hedge fund firm owned by Paul Singer, a billionaire Wall Street investor who has given millions to Republican political campaigns and neoconservative advocacy groups. He also held a post as an adjunct fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations Middle Eastern studies program.

In 2009, Senor cofounded—with William Kristol and Robert Kagan—the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a neoconservative group viewed by some as a revival of the now-defunct Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
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http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/senor_dan

Brian4Liberty
10-25-2015, 02:35 PM
Bill Kristol:


For example, Kristol enthusiastically encouraged Mitt Romney to tap Paul Ryan as his 2012 vice presidential running mate—reprising a role he played in 2008, when Kristol's advocacy helped put the previously little-known Sarah Palin on John McCain's 2008 ticket.
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Kristol saddled John McCain with Sarah Palin. He's the biggest backer of Paul Ryan, a Washington creature, who is being talked up as a potential presidential candidate in 2016...
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Politico suggested that the Hagel fight portended a more ambitious effort by Kristol and his allies to influence the post-Romney Republican Party, including launching a potential foray into domestic issues. "Kristol and his allies," wrote Kenneth Vogel, "have been talking about starting a 'reformist' organization to recraft Republican fiscal policies and champion a rising generation of Republicans, such as Kristol favorites Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/kristol_william

Brian4Liberty
10-25-2015, 03:13 PM
Cesar Conda:


Ryan’s K Street network also includes Howard Waltzman, another former Brownback aide; Michael Thompson, a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs; Cesar Conda, a lobbyist and former Dick Cheney aide and former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., who met Ryan through Empower America. Ryan also values policy advice from Yuval Levin and Peter Wehner, both fellows with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Ryan press aide said.
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http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/paul-ryan-speaker-inner-circle/

RonPaulMall
10-26-2015, 12:38 PM
Boehner was just corrupt. If the liberty movement had more money than AIPAC and Big Business, he would have happily converted to our side. Ryan on the other hand, is a true believer. Far more dangerous. We've jumped out of the frying pan and in to the fire. Thanks, "Freedom" Caucus.

ZENemy
10-26-2015, 12:42 PM
awwww the little god has other god friends that wish to impose themselves upon others using force. Color me surprised.

euphemia
10-26-2015, 12:58 PM
Make no mistake about it: Every Republican in Washington has neocon connections. Politics is about who you know and what they want. Nobody would be elected without neocons. People make deals. We can't act like Ryan is some kind of special case.

Brian4Liberty
10-26-2015, 03:58 PM
Make no mistake about it: Every Republican in Washington has neocon connections. Politics is about who you know and what they want. Nobody would be elected without neocons. People make deals. We can't act like Ryan is some kind of special case.

No, not every Republican has hardcore neoconservatives as adviser and staffers.