Former Congressman Mickey Edwards

Went and heard former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma tonight at the Clinton School discuss his book "Reclaiming Conservatism" (Oxford University Press, 2008). He's on All Things Considered pretty routinely and is now a lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He formerly taught alongside David Pryor at Harvard's Kennedy School. Pryor was also in the audience, as were legislators Bryan King and Ed Garner. Skip Rutherford, of course, moderated.

A couple of points he raised include being irked when conservatives use the Reagan phrase "government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Edwards says that the quote is virtually always taken out of context and that Reagan was actually making a point contrary to the way that phrase is now used. He also made it a point to say that true conservatives should advocate "limited" government, not small government. Interesting program. Here's a pic: