Former George W. Bush speech writer David Frum has resigned from the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. Frum announced this on his Web site Thursday afternoon -- a move which suggests the conservative movement has cut ties with Frum over the straight talk he has been providing all week.
Following the passage of health care reform in the House, Frum made waves with a column for CNN.com declaring that health care had proven to have been a "Waterloo" for the GOP, not for Obama as Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) infamously suggested. Republican lawmakers quickly dismissed Frum, a prominent reformist conservative, as a mere "former staffer."
Then Frum said on "Nightline" that the Republican Party's lockstep with the Fox News attack machine has hurt the party, and that "we're discovering we work for Fox." That may have been the last straw for AEI President Arthur Brooks.
"I have been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2003. At lunch today, AEI President Arthur Brooks and I came to a termination of that relationship," Frum wrote on his Web site.
Frum is the latest moderate conservative casualty. Some other notables who dared to tell the truth are Michael A. Smerconish and Christopher Buckley.
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502336.html?hpid=topnews
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