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[Negroponte J. Rabit] "I never purchase more than two gallons of fuel at the station because the more times I need to stop for fuel, the less inclined I am going to be toward wasting it." A hypothetical conservative applying their political philosophy to reality. So, next time you hear a conservative points out that Bush's $9 trillion dollar deficit is because he abandoned conservatism, tell them to cut the crap.

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Synchronicity swirls and other foolishness: In any case, my take on this issue is that while I do not understand libertarianism, it seems clear to me that many US conservatives became strongly anti-government in the 1960s, when Kennedy and (especially) Johnson used the federal government to reduce poverty and segregation. A great many conservatives are racists and social darwinists, and so they strongly objected to both the idea of desegregation and especially of using their tax monies to pay for this effort or to help improve the lives of people of color and the poor. (via Cosmos)

Majikthise: Let's make a list of the most egregious examples of the Republicans appointing people who are bent on destroying whatever they're assigned to manage. It's the HR equivalent of starving the beast and it's standard operating procedure for the Republicans. (via Cosmos)

Piece Of Mind: Social Security is a complex issue, made more so by the countless voices on the right wing that want to see it ended, or at least privatized and rendered useless to all but Wall Street brokerage houses. But a general strategy of the right wing, advanced by Grover Norquist, is to “starve the beast”, that is, to on one hand run up massive deficits through military spending and tax cuts, and on the other to blame those deficits on Social Security and other entitlements, thereby creating a popular push to cut those programs, to eventually (using another Norquist expression) “to get [government] down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”. (via Cosmos)

Gene Expression: In other words, to overthrow the Great Society welfare state (and presumably replace with something more politically revolutionary). But in any case, the only reason I bring this up it that as I was reading this I was struck by an analogy to the Starve-the-beast philosophy promoted by Grover Norquist, except in the opposite direction. (via Cosmos)

MOLDY CITY: I've said this before, but I'm convinced that if the governor or the top official in other parish made Nagin's spending decisions, it would be a major issue. Don't even think about how the paper would cover the mayor if it were anti-Nagin, imagine instead if Aaron Broussard had 66 employees in his office and 14 working on Jefferson Parish streets? (via Cosmos)

Divided We Stand United We Fall: For all except the 31% of the electorate that still thinks Bush is doing a good job, Hagel's demonstrated independence from this administration makes him more electable in '08. If Bush had been listening to Chuck Hagel over the last four years, as opposed to Cheney and Rumsfeld, we would probably have a successful policy in Iraq, and the Republicans would still have a majority in Congress. (via Cosmos)

[Craponwhatever.blogspot.com] Crapping on about whatever I feel like: The results in the US mid-term elections should serve to reign in some of the more extreme legislative whims of the Bush Administration, now that they have a hostile House of Representatives to deal with, the Democratic Party having captured nearly double the number of seats they needed to win off the Republicans to gain a majority in the House. Bush will now need to negotiate legislation through the Democrat controlled lower house rather than rely on his Republican cronies to push it through.

[Horsesass.org] HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » Bush speak: More crap. I don’t know why we are wasting lives, time and resources running around stinking Iraq.

[Classicalvalues.com] Classical Values - PDA: To stay with the traffic example, there might be a tree blocking the road, a dead cow, a stalled car, or a road crew. Then again, the explanation might be simple "congestion." I can't speak for everyone, but I find the fallen tree or dead cow more satisfying than an asshole who should have known better than to run out of gas and who lacked the simple ability to pull over, and as to the road crew, I find it infinitely more satisfying if I see them doing emergency-related work than if they've closed down two lanes and held up rush hour traffic so that a few juvenile delinquents can pick up trash.