[lbo-talk] Conservatives: Time for us to go

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Sep 13 19:15:14 PDT 2006


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.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.forum.html [Links in the original]

Let's quit while we're behind

By Christopher Buckley

Bring on Pelosi

By Bruce Bartlett

And we thought Clinton had no self-control

By Joe Scarborough

Give divided government a chance

By William A. Niskanen

Restrain this White House

By Bruce Fein

Idéologie has taken over

By Jeffrey Hart

The show must not go on

By Richard A. Viguerie



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