Greasy Jim Wolcott has reached a new low in this blog chastising Roger Simon and other liberal supporters of the War on Terror for ideological sins against the proletariat and their protectors among the cultural elite:
The fact is that by subscribing to Bush’s War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq with every corpuscle of your tired body you’ve made common cause with Republican conservatives, neoconservatives, and Christian fundamentalists who are dedicated to destroying those parcels of liberalism on which you stake your tiny claims of pride. When you align yourself with the likes of Hugh Hewitt, author of that polemical gem of understatement If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It, or Michael Ledeen, you’ve allied yourselves to political gangsters dedicated to waging permanent war abroad and cultural war here. Do you really think that conservative supremacy in the executive, congressional, and judicial branches of government means that gay rights and abortion rights will somehow be spared? These people won’t be happy until not only is gay marriage but gay adoption is outlawed as well; they’re not out simply to restrict abortion but to restrict contraception of any kind. There is absolutely no excuse for certain bloggers to be upset or dismayed by Bush’s recent statement about teaching Intelligent Design in schools–you bought the whole package when you chose him as your staunch leader in the war on terror, mocking liberals for being too wimpy for the task.
This is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning, but at the risk of being tedious I have to point out the following: if supporting the War on Terror is making common cause with conservative Christians, with whom do the War on Terror’s opponents make “common cause”?
Clue: The US and the UK allied with the USSR to defeat the Axis, then we turned in the USSR. This tactic is right out the Little Red Book for god sakes.
Jimmy tends to be a little shrill, but he must have been high when he wrote this.
I fear you might be incorrect about this, disregarding Wolcott’s emotional problems for the moment. I think that the religious fundamentalists who have temporarily co-opted the Republican Party (no true conservative Republican would have abused the Federal budget as the Bush Administration has) are capable of the most egregious attempts at making the ‘merely stupid’ into policy. Don’t underestimate the power and seductiveness of willful blindness.
Successful politics is coalition politics.
Why do you think the Christians are the ones breaking the budget? Their appetite for cash seems pretty small compared to the highway lobby, the old folks, and the education lobby.
I suspect that the goal of the spending binge is to ‘starve the beast’ into quiesence, which fits into the X-ian Right’s anti-government goals.
Perhaps it’s more like this: anti-abortion voters are focused on their single issue, so they don’t care what the government does as long as they get what they want. There are lots of single-issue voters, and all of them are indifferent to spending except the conservative anti-tax lobby.