2013’s lesson for conservatives

28 Dec 2013 07:31 #1 by Blazer Bob
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... print.html


By George F. Will, Published: December 27

This report on the State of Conservatism comes at the end of an annus mirabilis for conservatives. In 2013, they learned that they may have been wasting much time and effort.

Hitherto, they have thought that the most efficient way to evangelize the unconverted was to write and speak, exhorting those still shrouded in darkness to read conservatism’s most light-shedding texts. Now they know that a quicker, surer method is to have progressives wield power for a few years. This will validate the core conservative insight about the mischiefs that ensue when governments demonstrate their incapacity for supplanting with fiats the spontaneous order of a market society."...

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28 Dec 2013 15:11 #2 by LadyJazzer
Why, yes... Surely when they look at all that the GoTP has done for them, and is doing for them...in the name of conservative purity...they will come around to the teabagger way of thinking...

Here Are All The Times Congress Screwed Americans This Year In The Name Of Austerity

:pop

Perhaps the GoTP can point out one single thing they have done for the American people, (other than the top 1%--and themselves)...?

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28 Dec 2013 17:23 #3 by Blazer Bob

LadyJazzer wrote: Why, yes... Surely when they look at all that the GoTP has done for them, and is doing for them...in the name of conservative purity...they will come around to the teabagger way of thinking...

Here Are All The Times Congress Screwed Americans This Year In The Name Of Austerity

:pop

Perhaps the GoTP can point out one single thing they have done for the American people, (other than the top 1%--and themselves)...?


Austerity, gag me with a spoon.

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28 Dec 2013 20:49 #4 by FredHayek

LadyJazzer wrote: Why, yes... Surely when they look at all that the GoTP has done for them, and is doing for them...in the name of conservative purity...they will come around to the teabagger way of thinking...

Here Are All The Times Congress Screwed Americans This Year In The Name Of Austerity

:pop

Perhaps the GoTP can point out one single thing they have done for the American people, (other than the top 1%--and themselves)...?

:biggrin: They decreased Obama's outrageous spending plans. Sequestration is reducing the debt levels for America's children.

Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.

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30 Dec 2013 00:30 #5 by LadyJazzer
In other words, you don't have a thing...

Got it.

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30 Dec 2013 05:50 #6 by Reverend Revelant

LadyJazzer wrote: In other words, you don't have a thing...

Got it.


You're up early this morning... looking for your broom?


Waiting for Armageddon since 33 AD

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