My, How The Wheel Turns

By Cernig

David Kurtz at TPM writes:

It occurred to me while reading Politico's interview with Dick Cheney, that the GOP's plan to regain political viability in the short term rests on two disaster scenarios: the failure of the financial rescue efforts (stimulus, TARP, and other bailouts) to stave off complete economic collapse and a new mass casualty terrorist attack -- both of which they are positioning themselves to blame Obama for.

Without one of those two, they have to figure it's going to be a long time wandering in the political wilderness. Now think about the curdling effect, the blight on the soul that comes with rooting for such disasters to befall your country. The rot is now eating at the party's very core.

It's not that long ago that conservatives were accusing liberals of hating America because they thought Bush's keynote policies of runaway deregulated monitarism, invading other nations on a pretext, whipping up vote-winning fear about deadly attacks on America and illegally kidnapping people for torture were destined to fail. The two sides still argue about whether they did fail or not. (Although at least liberals, unlike Dick, didn't have to resort to outright lies to push their case.) The real proof is in the pudding - a conservative is not sitting in the White House.

But why are we at all surprised that conservatives are now doing exactly what they always accused liberlas of? That's just the less pleasant side of human nature, I'm afraid. I'll be generous and ascribe to conservatives exactly the same motives that I ascribed to liberals - they don't actually wish these America to fail, they simply believe these policies will fail and hurt the nation thereby. Again, the real proof will be in what happens next and how the American people view those events.