Amen:
Conservatives created Barack Obama and his vision of the Europeanization of America, and so have themselves to blame for the current recessional, as the present as we have known it fades into the past.
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So the Republicans betrayed their own principles and allowed the Democrats in 2006 and 2008 to run against deficits in order that they could enlarge deficits, convinced that the natural opposition was long ago discredited.
It's especially galling to watch the liberals having a field day on the TV-talk circuit. Every time a conservative tries to make a reasonable point about excessive spending or governmental reach, the liberal gets to say, "I have to listen to a lecture on fiscal discipline from the likes of you?" and doesdn't have to defend the liberals' even greater lack of dis
