17 August 2005

Bring back the real Republicans

An excellent, on-target assessment of the neoconservative cabal currently in power.
No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Remember those serious-looking 1950's-1960's science guys in the movies -- Republican to a one.

They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La Revolution you need somebody to remember where you parked the car. I was never one (nor a Democrat, really, more an agnostic libertarian big on the social contract, but we don't have a party ...), but I genuinely liked them.

How did they become the party of fairy dust and make believe? How did they become the anti-science guys? The anti-fact guys? The anti-logic guys?

Against stem cell research, against separation of church and state, overseeing of biggest surplus to biggest debt (not counting war, even), failure to plan post-invasion, fraudulent deceptions floated about WMD to justify an illegal immoral war, anti-conservation, inadequate troop armor, denial of consensus of scientists on global warming, over costly missle shield expenditures, etc.…

Comments

Well, well, neocon is back with a pseudonym.
Welcome back, Neocon.

Sincerely, can I call you by your first name?
Or would you prefer to continue to go by your pseudonym?