Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Meanwhile, over in bizarro world

Criminalizing Conservatives


Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives.


Close, but I think that here in the real world, that sentence should read: Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminal behavior had been implemented by conservatives.

Why are conservative Republicans, who control the executive and legislative branches of government for the first time in living memory, so vulnerable to the phenomenon of criminalization? Is it simple payback for the impeachment of Bill Clinton? Or is it a reflection of some deep malady at the heart of American politics? If criminalization is seen to loom ahead for every conservative who begins successfully to act out his or her beliefs in government or politics, is the project of conservative reform sustainable?

Or, is it because, dare I say it: THEY BROKE THE FUCKING LAW.

Oh my. I hope I haven't given anyone the vapors.

Via E.J. Dionne, who is a lot more polite about it.

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