http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.forum.html
The Washington Monthly, October 2006
Time For Us To Go
Conservatives on why the GOP should lose in 2006.
With Republicans controlling Congress and the White House,
conservatives these days ought to be happy, but most aren't. They
see expanding government, runaway spending, Middle East
entanglements, and government corruption, and they wonder why,
exactly, the country should be grateful for Republican dominance.
Some accuse Bush and the Republicans today of not being true
conservatives. Others see a grab bag of stated policies and wonder
how they cohere. Everyone thinks something's got to change.
Now seven prominent conservatives dare to speak the unspeakable:
They hope the Republicans lose in 2006. Well, let's be diplomatic
and say they'd prefer divided government--soon. (Perhaps that
formulation will fool Dennis Hastert.) Of course, all of them wish
for the long-term health of conservatism, and most are loyal to the
GOP. What they also believe, however, is that even if a Speaker
Pelosi looms in the wings, sometimes the best remedy for a party
gone astray is to give it a session in the time-out chair.
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By Bruce Bartlett
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By Joe Scarborough
Give divided government a chance
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Restrain this White House
By Bruce Fein
Idéologie has taken over
By Jeffrey Hart
The show must not go on
By Richard A. Viguerie