Blinded by the Right

Pauly has the last installment of an excellent series he's been writing for about a week now (give or take). Read them all:

And conservatives have only themselves to blame. Yeah, yeah, the GOP controls all three branches of the federal government -- that you can probably blame on liberals. But what's conservative about the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress? One, Teaxs greedhead Tom DeLay makes the late spendthrift extraordinaire Tip O'Neill look like a skinflint (no mean feat there, take it from a Bay State native); two, the federal government is larger and more overbearing now than it's ever been (whatever happened to shrinking the government to the point that it could be drowned in a bathtub, otherwise known as the Norquist Doctrine?); three, there's nothing fiscally responsible about cutting taxes while waging war in Iraq (which, I believe, is the first time in America's history that that's happened -- the war profiteering is nothing new, but it's still evil, and in this case profoundly insulting); and four, Social Security may be liberal in its implementation, but it's conservative in its effect -- it helps to preserve a decent standard of living for old people that they deserve anyway (what the hell is conservative, never mind laudable, about altering Social Security in such a way as to risk throwing our senior citizens out in the cold?). This Republican administration and this Republican Congress don't practice conservatism. They practice radicalism. They're neither better than nor different from the Bolsheviks who took over Russia in the early half of the last century.

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The self-proclaimed 'bird brain' is far more insightful than he lets on.