Garrison Keillor on Liberal Conservatism
The Republican Revolution has gone the way of all flesh. It took over Congress and the White House, horns blew, church bells rang, sailors kissed each other, and what happened? The Republicans led us into a reckless foreign war and steered the economy toward receivership and wielded power as if there were no rules. Democrats are accused of having no new ideas, but Republicans are making some of the old ideas look awfully good, such as constitutional checks and balances, fiscal responsibility, and the notion of realism in foreign affairs and taking actions that serve the national interest. What one might call "conservatism."
[Garrison Keillor, "Day of reckoning for the Current Occupant". Chicago Tribune, 15 March 2006.]
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on Saturday, 18 March 2006 at 15.53
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Great quote and dead accurate to boot.
Longtime Republican think tanker Norm Ornstein is a frequent guest on Al Franken's show. Ornstein has observed several times that before Newt Gingrich and his neocon horde took over the House in '94, Republicans complained bitterly about the Democratic majority's overbearing and allegedly corrupt ways. Ironically, Ornstein says, Republicans have managed to do in less than 10 years what took Democrats 30 years to do.