{"id":798,"date":"2006-01-10T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/george-will-is-pissed\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T12:36:02","slug":"george-will-is-pissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/george-will-is-pissed","title":{"rendered":"George Will is peeved"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, Radley Balko (aka The Agitator<\/a>) quoted a recent George Will column excoriating the attempt at moralizing via tax breaks<\/a> in the post-Katrina recovery package (I goofed on that subject in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With today’s column<\/a>, it looks like Balko underestimated how pissed off Will is at the GOP.<\/p>\n

Here’s a snippet:<\/p>\n

Until the Bush administration, with its incontinent spending, unleashed an especially conscienceless Republican control of both political branches, conservatives pretended to believe in limited government. The past five years, during which the number of registered lobbyists more than doubled, have proved that, for some Republicans, conservative virtue was merely the absence of opportunity for vice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure Will would characterize himself more as a “true conservative” than as a libertarian, but politics makes strange bedfellows.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, Radley Balko (aka The Agitator) quoted a recent George Will column excoriating the attempt at moralizing via tax breaks in the post-Katrina recovery package (I goofed on that subject in December. With today’s column, it looks like Balko underestimated how pissed off Will is at the GOP. Here’s a snippet: Until … <\/p>\n

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