The SCOTUS struck, Bush has been rebuked, so the a-holes who have been touting him are now flouting him...as liberal?
The Decline and Fall of the Republican Party
Tucker Carlson
What went wrong with the Republican Party?
That is a really tragic question. I do not actually consider myself much of a Republican, so I am not necessarily disappointed. But I am still a little bit shocked by what has happened in the last 11 years to this party that had such promise. How did this administration—which is, in the shorthand of the media, a sort of right-wing, small-government, tearit-all-down, cryptolibertarian administration—get to be, in fact, an administration that is in almost every single way as liberal as Bill Clinton’s administration? How did that happen?
The first and most obvious explanation of the problems in the Republican Party is that the president, despite everything you hear, is not actually all that conservative. He is definitely not animated by any libertarian instincts. Even during his 2000 campaign, he never claimed to be particularly conservative or libertarian. Bush’s problem, fundamentally, is that he is not an ideologue in any way. Everyone attacks ideologues as rigid, but in fact they govern far more effectively because they actually believe something. Bush is not a deep thinker. He is not an ideological thinker, and he does not think systematically about politics and the world.
Bush’s political philosophy, such as it is, was all there in the 2000 campaign. If you listened to Bush speak, he repeated one line in every speech: “Prosperity must have a purpose. Prosperity uncoupled from purpose is simple materialism.” That is a verbatim quote. Bush said that in every single stump speech, even to business groups. But most people at those speeches were not paying close attention. I do not think anybody stopped to ask what he meant.
On a moral level, he’s right. But I remember thinking that when it comes to government, simple materialism is more than enough. I am uncomfortable with governments that aspire to a lot more than simple materialism. That implies that the government has plans for me. It wants to make me a better person. I do not want to be made a better person. If that were the goal, the government would have license to do a lot of things I do not think it ought to be doing. And that would give you license to do a lot of things I do not think you ought to be doing. Bush’s claims of small government conservatism were a crock.
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv4n2.pdfPut this bizarre take on Bush together with these self-appointed moderators in the "right-left clash" and one has to ask: When are the RW a-holes and their enablers going to acknowledge that their narrow-mindedness, greed and sheer "a-holism" is responsible for reality?
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