Tom DeLay and the American Right: What is Wrong
Liberals Hiit Back at the Right
The real problem that the Republicans face is not Tom DeLay but Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader. It is certain that he was privy to some inside information. Otherwise how else can he explain the sale of stocks just before the Company went into bankruptcy. Karl Rove is in a soup over accusations that he made public the name of Valerie Plame, the alledged CIA agent. All this is only proof thar the Republicns have hit sleaze interval.
American Right is now on the Retreat. Bush ran on a classic right wing political platform which includedc. tax cuts, family values, American Way of Life, cleverly courted the religious right, the gun lobby and sundry other right wing hobby horses. Today the Right Coalition that Bush inherited from Ronald Reagan is lying in tatters. More than the Liberals attacking the Right a civil war has broken out amont the various constituents of the Right Coalition.
Traditionally Right Wing in the USA has been opposed to Big Governemnt. A fear of big government inherited fro the days of Edmund Burke has always been a part of the ideological package of the Right. Bush has only added to the responsibilities of Giovernment.
Conservatives do not approve of an interventionist Federal Government especially on the contentious issue of states rights.
Fiscal conservatives are aghast at the rampaging Federal Defecit. and the American Right has traditionally been Isolationist. The War in Iraq and the huge expenditute in money and lives is being resented by the traditional right.
Who can say that William Buckley is a Liberal. Even he has come out against the Iraq War.
It is pay back time, folks.