Why the Republicans Are So Awful

I don't know if you're a Lew Rockwell fan, but I am. Lew wrote this right around my birthday last week and I want to think it was a little present to me on my special day. Read his article, "Why the Republicans Are Doomed" and see if it feels to you like a bit of a gift.
Photo:Whole new meaning of 'dickhead'

Imagine that you are blindfolded and told that the food you are about to eat is ice cream. It turns out to be chicken liver. Or imagine that you think you are diving into warm water but instead it turns out to be near-freezing.

This is pretty much what it is like to be governed by Republicans, and there is no better case in point than George W. Bush. He, like all Republicans since the 1920s, campaigned as a shrink-the-government man. More incredibly to recall, he blasted the "nation-building" of Bill Clinton and insisted that the US needed a "humble" foreign policy.

What we got instead is, well, what we got, is the polar opposite. The man who wailed over Bill Clinton’s big government has made Clinton’s spending record look great by comparison. The guy who decried "nation-building" has decided that bombs and tanks are a great means to inspire a wholesale upheaval in the Gulf region. Read the rest...