[Bill,
February 12, 2009]
Stimulus
It's unbelievable, just unbelievable. Twenty-eight years of reform, much of it bipartisan, down the drain in a couple of weeks. I don't know what to say, which is why I'm not blogging much anymore. We conservatives may come back electorally, but it'll be unlikely we'll be able to roll these kinds of spending increases in our lifetimes. The country will repeat the mistakes of the late 60s and 70s, but this time, with a nuclear Iran.
And we might finally be coming to the point where the conservatives of 50 years ago will finally be dying off, to give us new, more principled conservatives (since the young are almost always more principled than the old).
Shit. I think I just became a Republican.
I think the GOP is running a real risk of being completely marginalized, which is bad, because we need two competitive parties. Of course, about four years ago the Dems were in about the same shape, so maybe their strength is being overstated in the media.
Yes, the GOP is having a rough go of it, but defense gets tiring. And yeah, it's the same situation the Dems were in only a few years ago. The only real thing the GOP has going for it is that they're playing the Democrats.