MB Civic

By Harold Meyerson | Friday, May 22, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…Since the end of World War II, American conservatism defined itself above all by its anti-communism and, since the late ’70s, by its support of a radical, laissez-faire capitalism. Win one, lose one, but the cumulative consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union and, in more attenuated fashion, of the Wall Street banks is that the Republican Party isn’t left with much of a defining doctrine. Packing heat in Yosemite and waterboarding in Guantanamo are not only stunningly dumb ideas, they’re also no way to build a party….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052103759_pf.html