aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The ethical Will
George Will today:
Before evolution produced creatures of our perfection, there was a three-ton dinosaur, the stegosaurus, so neurologically sluggish that when its tail was injured, significant time elapsed before news of the trauma meandered up its long spine to its walnut-size brain. This primitive beast, not the dignified elephant, should be the symbol of House Republicans.
Yes, one should not taint all of them because of the behavior of most of them. Why, perhaps half a dozen of the 231 Republican representatives authored none of the transportation bill’s 6,371 earmarks—pork projects. And now among House Republicans there are Darwinian stirrings, prompted by concerns about survival. [...]
Liberals practice “K Street liberalism” with an easy conscience because they believe government should do as much as possible for as many interests as possible. But “K Street conservatism” compounds unseemliness with hypocrisy. Until the Bush administration, with its incontinent spending, unleashed an especially conscienceless Republican control of both political branches, conservatives pretended to believe in limited government. The past five years, during which the number of registered lobbyists more than doubled, have proved that, for some Republicans, conservative virtue was merely the absence of opportunity for vice.
James Joyner, “indeed...the Democrats could dust off the Contract With America and run on it this year.”
SEE ALSO: Hward Kurtz, this is a real test for conservative commentators.
