Republican Administration Veteran Gives Cons a Proper Spanking

More like this, please:

Bruce Bartlett, a veteran of the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations, has been watching the conservative apoplexy in response to the Obama presidency. He's not only unimpressed, Bartlett is also convinced they're directing their rage at the wrong guy.

In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama's policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, and all the pork-barrel spending that Bush refused to veto.

Until conservatives once again hold Republicans to the same standard they hold Democrats, they will have no credibility and deserve no respect. They can start building some by admitting to themselves that Bush caused many of the problems they are protesting.

Well said.

Indeed.