The Republican Party
Great comment from
The Gun Guy about the Republican Party:
Quote Of The Day
In reporting conservative unhappiness with the Stupid Party, an offhand comment by Insty has stuck with me for the past few days:"It’s almost as if the Republicans want to go back to being the minority party."
You know, on a very few occasions, in academia veritas—and this is one of those times.
I have a feeling that Republicans are not comfortable being the government (although I except a few from the generalization). This is unsurprising, because a party which has a foundation principle of limiting government may have cognitive dissonance in the practice thereof. This would explain a lot of things about the Stupid Party: their passivity towards rabid Democrat political attacks; their ham-handed use of the levers of power, and their clumsy formulation of domestic policy. (Foreign policy, of course, is another matter—that’s not so much governance as self-defense—and in this arena, it’s the Evil Party who are the clowns.)
The Democrats, of course, are all about power, and and they are quite comfortable in governing, especially when the form of that government is ever-increasing control of the population’s behavior and even thought.
But I would suggest that it’s well past time for the Stupid Party to start getting comfortable with the exercise of power, at least on the domestic front. Their opposition is neither loyal nor sporting, and the sooner Republicans realize that, the better off we’ll all be.
What he said...
Posted by DaveH at November 18, 2005 10:37 AM