Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Katrina: Conservative Gold
But our conservative friends are not sensible people. Rick Perlstein takes a look back at the aftermath of Katrina, when conservatives saw the disaster as a "golden opportunity" to demand everything from the suspension of wage regulations and the elimination of the capital gains tax, to the privatization of Social Security, to the abolition of the Public Broadcasting System.
Read the whole post -- though you may want to cover your eyes when you get to the part where Jack Kemp mutilates the memory of Bobby Kennedy.
Sensible people saw Hurricane Katrina as a horrific natural and human disaster. They also saw it as an illustration of the serious drawbacks of the anti-government mentality.
But our conservative friends are not sensible people. Rick Perlstein takes a look back at the aftermath of Katrina, when conservatives saw the disaster as a "golden opportunity" to demand everything from the suspension of wage regulations and the elimination of the capital gains tax, to the privatization of Social Security, to the abolition of the Public Broadcasting System.
Read the whole post -- though you may want to cover your eyes when you get to the part where Jack Kemp mutilates the memory of Bobby Kennedy.
Labels: conservatives, Katrina, Rick Perlstein
¶ Posted by Paul Curtis 11:44 AM 
