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In today's Washington Post, columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. bemoans the fact that moderate Republicans are disappearing and being replaced by right wing ideologues. He says, "The spotted owl is in good shape compared with liberal Republicans." He also takes the "conservatives" to task for lousy government produced by pig-headed politicians appeasing the far right:
"Why does the decline and fall of liberal Republicanism matter?...it turns out that a Republican Party dominated by conservatives is no more coherent than the party that left room for progressives. The huge budget deficit is conservatism's Waterloo, testimony to its political failure. The conservatives love to cut taxes but can't square their lust for tax reduction with plausible spending cuts. Oh, yes, a group of House conservatives has a paper plan involving deep program cuts, but other conservatives know that these cuts will not pass, and shouldn't.
Paradoxically, because the liberal Republicans didn't pretend to hate government, they were better at fiscal responsibility. They were willing to match their desired spending levels with the taxes to pay for them. It didn't make for exciting, to-the-barricades politics. It merely produced good government.
It is true that modern conservatism stands for nothing except corporate welfare, incompetence and pandering to religious extremists. This has not led to responsible government and the Bush Era is a monument to such failure.
4 Comments:
Who are the greatest moderates in American history/politics?
So you think extremists are better? Any good moderate politician isnt going to hog the limelight anyway, so why would we have a laundry list of names?
posted by Anonymous, at
3/21/2006 4:51 PM
