Extreme liberalism

What is the problem with being liberal these days?

On Friday morning, as Bush was meeting the leaders of Southeast Asia, his press secretary issued an unusually blistering statement responding to Representative John Murtha's call for a pullout from Iraq. The statement charged that Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who had often backed Bush's military initiatives, was endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore, whose movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" attacks the Bush administration, and "the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party."

Source: International Herald Tribune

Hu helped guide China's initial market-oriented economic reforms, rehabilitated many people who had been purged or disgraced under Mao, and pursued ideas for deeper political change through much of the 1980s. He left power under pressure in 1987, accused by party conservatives of having "bourgeois" tendencies that undermined stability.

Political analysts said that the rehabilitation of Hu was unlikely to lead to policy changes, noting that President Hu has tightened controls on lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and intellectuals and warned about the threat from "liberal elements."

Source: International Herald Tribune