Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We Swear To Something, We Are Going To Get A Stick & ...

Fucking Frum, in Sullivan's spot:
But if compassionate conservatism means anything, it should mean support for research and experimentation to discover if maybe after all there is something that might work even a little better than writing off as valueless the lives of 3 million fellow-Americans, disproportionately minority and especially disproportionately black.
(We'd suggest the destruction of capitalism would be a good start to helping all Americans.)

Really, is "compassionate" conservatism suddenly resurgent? Does anyone think that it "means" any more than (just for fucking example, mind you) "Axis of Evil?" Or another phrase associated w/ Frum's former paymaster, G. W. Bush: "Mission Accomplished?"

Seriously, has anyone seriously taken "compassionate conservatism" seriously since ever? That conservatism must be prefaced w/ the attemptedly ameliorative alliteration of "compassionate" tells us all we need to know, dunnit?

And who's writing off every unemployed American? Oh, right, most of the compassionate Republican members of the Senate.

Special Weasel Award: "support for research and experimentation to discover if maybe after all there is something that might work even a little better". Could he be any vaguer? It's no wonder he wrote for Bush.

1 comment:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Wasn't too long ago, compassionate conservatives were willing, even eager, to write off 40 or 50 million Americans as having not enough value to protect through health care.

But who wants consistency from evil villains?