We Need a ‘Conservative’ Party

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/opinion/friedman-we-need-a-conservative-party.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Subject: re: We Need a ‘Conservative’ Party
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   In an American political spectrum that is already laughably narrow, Thomas Friedman suggests that all could be well if we would just split the difference. He has been inside the beltway too long. What America needs is a new voice to president Obama's Left, not to his Right. Who will prosecute torturers, rather than hold the CIA above the law? Who will defend citizens from illegal wiretaps, rather than grovel for telecom corporations' political donations? Who will question the Military/Industrial complex that consumes  half of our nation's tax revenues?  Yes, there are important voices lacking in our national political discourse. They won't be found in the aisles of Congress.

Barry Haskell Levine