Monday, May 10, 2004
Mixed Messages
So, I was reading the Post this morning, and came across this article.
I can't help but wonder if it is a good thing that Bush isn't as conservative as conservatives want him to be. On the other hand, it is scary that restricting women's rights, waging wars, and cutting taxes for the rich on the backs of the middle-class and poor somehow isn't conservative enough.
I kind of feel bad for Bush, what with even his allies hating him. Wait, no I don't.
I can't help but wonder if it is a good thing that Bush isn't as conservative as conservatives want him to be. On the other hand, it is scary that restricting women's rights, waging wars, and cutting taxes for the rich on the backs of the middle-class and poor somehow isn't conservative enough.
Michael Franc, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, said the criticism by O'Neill, Will and Kagan has a common thread: a concern that the administration is "using an old playbook" and not coming up with bold enough ideas, whether the subject is entitlement reform or pacifying Iraq. Conservative intellectuals "are saying, 'Don't do things half way,' " he said.
"It's the exhaustion of power," said a veteran of conservative think tanks who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Ideology has confronted reality, and ideology has bent. On the domestic side, it has bent in terms of the expansion of the government embodied in the Medicare prescription-drug law. On the foreign policy side, it has bent because of what has transpired in the last few weeks in Fallujah
I kind of feel bad for Bush, what with even his allies hating him. Wait, no I don't.
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