David Frum to Republicans: stop working for Fox and Limbaugh

03/26/2010

David Frum used to be a speechwriter for the GW Bush administration. You may remember him as the guy who wrote the "Axis of Evil" statement for Bush's speech. In 2003, he moved over to working for the American Enterprise Institute as a Fellow. This week, Frum had a "parting of the ways" with the AEI, and is now unemployed. He was fired, in other words.

On Sunday, Mr. Frum wrote on his website, FrumForum, that health-care reform had been a debacle for the Republican party, saying they'd “suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.”

“A huge part of the blame for today's disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves,” he wrote. “At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing.”

While Republicans predicted months ago that health-care reform would be Mr. Obama's “Waterloo,” Mr. Frum wrote: “It's Waterloo all right: ours.”

That's pretty objectionable to right wing Republicans. But if you want to really get them pissed off, talk about Fox News and Limbaugh in disparaging terms:

"Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."  -Frum from the March 22 edition of Nightline on ABC.

The Battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party continues, and moderates like Frum continue to lose.