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THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW CONGRESS: My Sunday Washington Examiner column is up. Excerpt: Back in 20?

By Glenn Reynolds

THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW CONGRESS: My Sunday Washington Examiner column is up. Excerpt:

Back in 2002, I wrote that Republicans should be repealing the awful Digital Millennium Copyright Act: By doing so, they’d not only build up goodwill among college-age downloaders and libertarian tech-types, but they’d also harm the entertainment-industrial complex that is a huge source of money and media power for Democrats.

Seldom are politicians presented with the opportunity to do something simultaneously so inherently right, politically popular and strategically advantageous. Naturally, the congressional Republicans of that era blew it.

They just couldn’t bring themselves to go after Big Business, even if it was hostile Big Business. That opportunity is still there. And don’t pass up similar opportunities, either. There are a lot of them out there.

Read the whole thing, as they say . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).