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March 28, 2007
Bush is the symptom, conservativism the disease
Republicans are in a bind -- they want to disown Bush and throw him to the wolves. They want to blame him for all the problems they've had the past few years governing the country and save their own hides, but they still can't find the strength to oppose his Iraq efforts. They are attached to his hip, yet they want to pretend that Bush is the cause of all the nation's problems. Complicating things, they've had a governmental trifecta, so they don't have their usual Democratic Party foils to blame. They're on their own and isolated on this one.But ultimately, Bush is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. The cause is conservatism. How can an ideology that holds as a truism that government can't work, work? If Republicans ran the country smoothly and ably, it would lay waste to their claims that government is the enemy and can't make people's lives better. In that regards, Bush hasn't been incompetent. He's been wildly successful.
So yes, what we have just witnessed is the logical conclusion of effective conservative governance, and things would look the same way today whether we had President McCain, President Lott, President Jeb, President Romney, President Thompson, or whichever other anti-government Republican we slotted in.
This is what conservatives want for America. We're seeing it in the most vivid of colors. Blaming Bush for doing exactly what conservatives wanted to the country would be like, well, blaming Gonzales for doing exactly what Bush ordered him to do.
Markos is on fire this morning! OK it was yesterday, but I didn't catch wind of it till this morning. It's absolutely so true, the radical right is trying to say that the problem isn't conservatism, but it's just the people in charge. The reality is that it's a natural result of conservative ideology, this is where you will always end up, thousands of Americans dead, the country faltering at every turn and conservatives screaming if they could just give the wealth one more tax cut that this would all turn around. Yeah right! Failure is the ultimate end of conservative ideology, it's the only place it can go because it's built on a fundamentally unsustainable set of precepts. Take a good look America this is the best the conservatives can do, this is their finest hour, the realization of all their dreams and ambitions. As you watch scandal after scandal unfold, remember this is what they consider Utopia and remember that the next time you're alone in the voting booth. If you vote for a conservative, this is what you want for America.
[via America Blog]
Read more over at Daily Kos.
Posted by Jamison at March 28, 2007 9:19 AM
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