Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:36  The Death of Conservatism and
Thus Liberalism's Demise?  Written by    • Print   • Email Rate
this item (0 votes)  So here we are, right in the thick of the
Great Conservative Crack-Up -- a political nervous breakdown
that's showing the GOP's ancestral Whigs and Federalists how to
really polish off a party with dazzling pizzazz, while
presenting, quite possibly, electoral hope for an often
incoherent Democratic caucus.  Just how severe is its breakdown?
Or, viewed from another angle, what actually constitutes the
breakdown?  I largely dismiss the GOP's exotic obstructionism as
a pathological sign of party disintegration. Republican stances,
say, against unemployment benefits but in support of plutocratic
tax cuts, or against economic stimulus because of deficit
worries but in support of unfunded wars, are indeed
conspicuously daffy and manifestly harmful to the nation's
interests. But, almost any out-of-power party will get itself
tied into hypocritical knots which reflect the u