{"id":4575,"date":"2012-02-20T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2012-02-20T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:30:11","slug":"conservatives-in-power-have-never-been-and-can-never-be-as-anti-government-as-they-are-in-a-campaign-ej-dionne-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/conservatives-in-power-have-never-been-and-can-never-be-as-anti-government-as-they-are-in-a-campaign-ej-dionne-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"“Conservatives in power have never been — and can never be — as anti-government as they are in a campaign.”–EJ Dionne, Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ideological hypocrites – The Washington Post<\/a> EJ Dionne, Jr.<\/p>\n

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Can conservatives finally face the fact that they actually want quite a lot from government, and that they are simply unwilling to raise taxes to pay for it?<\/p>\n

This is why our political system is so broken. Conservatives keep pretending that they can keep anti-government promises that they know perfectly well they are destined to break. We won\u2019t have sensible politics again until our friends on the right bring their rhetorical claims into closer alignment with what they do \u2014 and what it takes to make government work. \u2026<\/p>\n

Why do they criticize \u201centitlements\u201d and \u201cbig government\u201d while promising today\u2019s senior citizens \u2014 an important part of the conservative base \u2014 never, ever to cut their Medicare or Social Security? Why do they claim that they want government out of the marketplace while not only rejecting cuts in defense but also lauding large defense contracts that are an enormous intrusion in the operation of the \u201cfree market\u201d? \u2026<\/p>\n

[S]o many conservative politicians say they\u2019re anti-government but spend long careers in office drawing paychecks from the taxpayers. Also: Why do they bash government largesse while seeking as much of it as they can get for their constituents and friendly interest groups? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ideological hypocrites – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ideological hypocrites – The Washington Post EJ Dionne, Jr. Can conservatives finally face the fact that they actually want quite a lot from government, and that they are simply unwilling to raise taxes to pay for it? This is why our political system is so broken. Conservatives keep pretending that they can keep anti-government promises … Continue reading “Conservatives in power have never been — and can never be — as anti-government as they are in a campaign.”–EJ Dionne, Jr<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}