Are We Compassionate Conservatives?
This is from a post at Fact-exque.
This morning when I woke up, I was still angry at Reid for telling reporters before the Labor-H override vote that the Dems were ready to come back after Thanksgiving with a bundled bill and $11B in cuts for Dear Leader to consider. My beef is that he removed any pressure the party-over country dead-enders who support BushCo’s War on the Poor and Middle Class may have been feeling to do the right thing. But then I realized something I knew but clearly hadn’t internalized – probably because my faith in our system of government isn’t completely dead. He knew the numbers; the vote was already over for him. Pretending otherwise would have simply been a courtesy to the voters. And, if I think about it, an unkind deception – why pretend that there’s hope when there is none?
