In the mail: The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan. It’s yet another devastating indictment of the Bush administration by a conservative.
From the book jacket: “The contradictions keep mounting. Today’s conservatives support the idea of limited government, but they have increased government’s size, power, and reach to new heights. They believe in balanced budgets, but they have boosted government spending, debt, and pork to record levels. They believe in individual liberty and the rule of law, but they have condoned torture, ignored laws passed by Congress, and been indicted for bribery. They have substituted religion for politics, and damaged both.”
Does anyone think they really believe in any of those things? They may pay lip service to them but it doesn’t follow from the headlines that there’s anything to it.
And let’s leave out how long it took Sullivan to work this out. Why an openly gay man aligns himself with a political party that considers him an abomination escapes me.
Now playing: Little Red Light by Fountains Of Wayne from the album “Welcome Interstate Managers”