There is a great piece in the Washington Post today. I hope you will read the whole thing, but if not here are some choice quotes:
What’s the difference between the Republican Party then and the Republican Party now ? Here’s an illustration: Richard Nixon was the president who established the Environmental Protection Agency. Tom “The Hammer” DeLay is the congressman who called the EPA a latter-day “Gestapo.”
Theirs is a greedy, small-minded conservatism. In their policies, they seek not to improve government, and certainly not to shrink it, but to ruin it — to starve the regulatory agencies with tax cuts, then spend so wildly on pork that there’s nothing left to pay for actual government work such as, say, preparing for a hurricane.
DeLay and Co. don’t just want to bankrupt the government, they want to force the whole country to conform to their “moral” prescriptions. On private matters such as abortion, homosexuality, religion, even end-of-life decisions, they demand that all of us do as they say. When it comes to the millions who lack health insurance, though, or to persistent poverty in the inner cities — well, those problems are for individuals and “faith-based” institutions to grapple with as best they can.
Truly great.
