Conservatism Is Dead (great, looong read)

[wyldwolf]

Couldn't decide what excerpt to post so I decided not to post one...

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9dfd540a-3d44-4684-a333-415ef34efa5b

[Why Syzygy]

1. I'll post one...

More telling than Barack Obama's victory is the consensus, steadily building since Election Day, that the nation has sunk--or been plunged--into its darkest economic passage since the Great Depression. And, as Obama pushes boldly ahead, apparently with public support, the right is struggling to reclaim its authority as the voice of opposition. The contrast with 1993, when the last Democratic president took office, is instructive. Like Obama, Bill Clinton was elected in hard economic times and, like him, promised a stimulus program, only to see his modest proposal ($19.5 billion) stripped almost bare by the Senate minority leader, Bob Dole, even though Democrats had handily won the White House and Senate Republicans formed nearly as small a minority as they do today.

edit to add: THIS is the only drawback to being a progressive. The weak effort.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Incorrect. Republicans got pasted in '06 also. It's been building for YEARS. nt