On Kemp

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• vwcat // May 3, 2009 at 5:59 pm

  How very sad.I worked for public housing when Kemp was the head of HUD and we all felt he was a great secretary and did an outstanding job.This is the kind of republican I mourn. I don’t like seeing the gop falling apart as my side needs an opposition to keep them honest – so to speak. lolI think he is the last of the good republicans. I don’t say that as throwing mud. I say that with sadness.What the conservatives did not see was that Kemp was as close to a Reagan as there was. He embodied that kind of conservative that so many today lament. but, truth is, this is also the kind being run out today.People like Mr. Frum. I don’t agree with Mr. Frum on almost everything but, I respect him. I hope someday the gop realizes that what ails them is that they no longer have the Jack Kemps as their politicians.His passing is very sad and he will be missed.

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• joemarier // May 3, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  I couldn’t help but think about the amazingly varied intellectual trajectories of the economists that Kemp brought together: Bartlett, Wanniski, Paul Craig Roberts, Robert Mundell, Art Laffer… anyone who could unite men like that had something going for him.

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