Cutting taxes and spending like a drunken sailor isn't some new kind of conservatism, it's an old kind of lunatic irresponsibility, the sort of thing the Bavarians put Ludwig in a soft room for.
That's one of the nicer critiques that Michael O'Hare makes in his scathing response to David Brooks' latest column (in which Brooks argues that George W. Bush hasn't destroyed conservatism, he's "modernized" it).
Posted by armand at October 23, 2005 01:37 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics