{"id":6081,"date":"2010-01-21T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/democrat-congressional-comm-attacks-cato-institute-as-right-wing-extremists\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:25:00","slug":"democrat-congressional-comm-attacks-cato-institute-as-right-wing-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-congressional-comm-attacks-cato-institute-as-right-wing-extremists.php","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Congressional Comm. attacks Cato Institute as &quot;right-wing extremists&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S1gd1C__rGI\/AAAAAAAAJZI\/sbkBuihE_yc\/s1600-h\/davidboaz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77750_davidboaz.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Does this look like the Face of \"Rightwing Extremism?\"<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>How ironic.  Many on the Right side of the Libertarian movement, including myself, have long considered the guys at Cato to lean slightly to the Left.  They're stridently Anti-War, no different from say Justin Raimondo, Eric Garris, and AntiWar.com.  They're unabashedly Pro-Gay Marriage.  They worked with the Clinton administration and offered praise for Bill Clinton's economic moderate agenda in the 1990s. <\/p><p>Dave Boaz, Cato VP (photo), even co-wrote a book in the 1990s, attempting to re-paint libertarianism as a subset of American liberalism, \"Market Liberalism.\"<\/p><p>Now the Democrat National Congressional Committee (DNCC) is hitting a Republican congressional candidate in upstate New York for his ties to the \"extremist rightwing\" organization.  <\/p><p>From Ben Smith at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\">Politico<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>in a press release attacking a Republican running for Congress in upstate New York, the DCCC lashed out at his ties to the Cato Institute, the libertarian Washington think tank.<\/p><p>\"While making today&rsquo;s announcement that he will once again run for Congress in New York&rsquo;s 24th District, [Richard] Hanna also launched a new campaign website where he shamelessly touts his ties to the Cato Institute, a right-wing extremist group that has long been a vocal advocate for extremist, unfair trade policies that would allow companies to ship American jobs overseas,\" said the press release.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The release goes on to hammer candidate Hanna as a card-carrying member of Cato:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"He is a sustaining member of the CATO Institute... The CATO Institute is a right wing extremist group...\"<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64ad5_7828681836623105417-3069324378701756706?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this look like the Face of \"Rightwing Extremism?\"From Eric Dondero:How ironic. Many on the Right side of the Libertarian movement, including myself, have long considered the guys at Cato to lean slightly to the Left. They're stridently Anti-War, no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-congressional-comm-attacks-cato-institute-as-right-wing-extremists.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}