Remember Naught: "conservatives got everything they wanted in the decade just past"

[phantom power]

Don't forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. Open markets? Wide open. An illusuion of security in place of rights? Hey, presto. You want unlimited power given to military contractors so they can kick butt and take names? Man, we handed out boots and pencils by the thousands. Everything, everything, that ever showed up on a drooled-over right wing wish list got implemented -- with a side order of Freedom Fries.

They will try to disown it, and God knows if I was responsible for this mess I'd be disowning it, too. But the truth is that the conservatives got everything they wanted in the decade just past, everything that they've claimed for forty years would make America "great again". They didn't fart around with any "red dog Republicans." They rolled over their moderates and implemented a conservative dream.

What did we get for it? We got an economy in ruins, a government in massive debt, unending war, and the repudiation of the world. There's no doubt that Republicans want you to forget the last decade, because if you remember... if you remember when you went down to the water hole and were jumped by every lunacy that ever emerged from the wet dreams of Grover Norquist and Dick Cheney, well, it's not likely that you'd give them a chance to do it again.

Because they will. Given half a chance -- less than half -- they'll do it again, only worse. Because that's the way conservatism works. Remember when the only answer to every economic problem was "cut taxes?" We have a surplus. Good, let's cut taxes. We have a deficit. Hey, cut taxes even more! That little motto was unchanging even when was clear that the tax cuts were increasing the burden on everyone but a wealthy few. That's just a subset of the great conservative battle whine which is now and forever "we didn't go far enough." If deregulation led to a crash, it's because we didn't deregulate enough. If the wars aren't won, it's because we haven't started enough wars. If there are people still clinging to their rights, it's because we haven't done enough to make them afraid.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/3/821080/-Remember-Naught

[Zenlitened]

1. K & freakin' R!

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2. What ^ said. nt

[treestar]

3. Not at all true

They wanted a lot more.

[BeFree]

4. What stopped them?

Point of order to the OP::

Replace conservatives with republican, please.
These were not conservatives in the real sense, they were neo-con, con artist pubbies.

[RoadRage]

5. Agree..

They'd love to see abortion outlawed.. and LUCKILY that did not happen - as much as Bushy would have liked to see it happen.. SCOTUS held on to their seats long enough to prevent it.

[treestar]

7. Amen and they'd have prayer in the public schools if they could get it

The SCOTUS didn't uphold their allegations they could detain anyone they labeled a "terrorist" indefinitely without assistance of counsel - that was something they wanted, and people here forget, something the justices they would nominate to the SCOTUS might go along with next time. That's why the far left is acting so outrageous claiming there is no difference between the parties. The people who would end up on the SCOTUS alone are enough reason to work hard for the Democrats. They're not getting the big picture.

[Political_Junkie]

6. Nice!

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