Good lord. The writing assignment from the Wall Street Journal is "Hopes for the Obama Presidency." But Steele has a knack for shitty headlines ("...Why He Can't Win"), so we get "Black America Could Have Done Better."
Patterning himself after Rush, here are his hopes:
I hope this administration does not succeed in dumping vast amounts of printing-press money into the economy, so that taxes must later be raised to withering levels. I hope it fails to universalize health care or to sustain race-based affirmative action. I hope school choice happens in inner cities despite Mr. Obama's animus toward it.
Sigh.
To be fair, Steele is hoping for the failure of policies abject to conservative philosophy, not failure of an Obama presidency, but is one separate from the other? I don't expect everyone to get on the Obama train I'm riding. I'm perfectly happy to have each have their own. But wasn't this negative attitude decried as treason when those who didn't fall in line after 9/11 voiced their low opinions of Bush's policies?
I'm becoming convinced that sites such as The Corner and thinkers in Steele's vein are struggling. They are so used to defending their self-actualized personal responsibility bailiwick that when confronted with success from other quarters, they are stymied. Their imagination is lacking, so they revert to what, remarkably once upon a Reagan, worked.
I'm not quite there yet, but I may follow the example of a blogger whose site I cannot remember and just dismiss their selfish rubbish out of hand. But in doing that, is there the danger of echo chamber political conscience? Thought unchallenged is thought stunted, which is a large part of conservative philosophy's problem right now.
A good corollary question is "Are Republicans and Conservatives The Same Thing?"
Jesus. My head hurts.
But here is the rub, inside the Democratic party you have voices of dissent which makes it hard to have an echo chamber unlike the Republican party. Therefore you really CAN dismiss any and all Republican ideas because the truth of the matter is most of what they might come up with that might work will still be brought forth by our "Blue Dogs" so why waste time paying attention to the other (majority) of stuff that comes out of the GOP shop when you know its nonsensical?
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