Unconservative conservatives
Arizona Republic
by Jon Talton
04/09/06
Conservatives control the White House, Congress and Supreme Court. Not only that, they have intimidated their longtime bogeyman, the major media. Yet things are not going well. The catalog of disasters is thick: Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, congressional corruption, corporate cronyism, the betrayal of a CIA officer for political gain, a frightening foreign debt and bitter divisions over immigration, to name a few. Seminal conservative thinkers have broken with the Bush White House, among them Kevin Phillips, Francis Fukuyama, Bruce Bartlett and Paul Craig Roberts. William F. Buckley, the founder of modern American conservatism, has called on President Bush to acknowledge 'defeat' in Iraq. Each of these titans offers analyses on where the movement went wrong. I would add a fundamental one: Conservatism has done a lousy job of conserving...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Jon Talton
04/09/06
Conservatives control the White House, Congress and Supreme Court. Not only that, they have intimidated their longtime bogeyman, the major media. Yet things are not going well. The catalog of disasters is thick: Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, congressional corruption, corporate cronyism, the betrayal of a CIA officer for political gain, a frightening foreign debt and bitter divisions over immigration, to name a few. Seminal conservative thinkers have broken with the Bush White House, among them Kevin Phillips, Francis Fukuyama, Bruce Bartlett and Paul Craig Roberts. William F. Buckley, the founder of modern American conservatism, has called on President Bush to acknowledge 'defeat' in Iraq. Each of these titans offers analyses on where the movement went wrong. I would add a fundamental one: Conservatism has done a lousy job of conserving...
http://tinyurl.com/fa3tj
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 10. Apr, 17:49
