P-Noony: Republican Corruption Proves that...

Republicans are right!

The height of human irrationality is the refusal to admit when you're wrong. And God is it ever on parade big time on the right these days.

Funny as it is to see Nooners & co. grasping frantically at straws, I have to admit some sympathy for a distant cousin of this argument. I have serious reservations about big government in part because I realize that conservatives will often be in charge of it...

In fact conservatives aren't really in favor of restraining government power and we shouldn't let them continue to pretend that they are. They like it just fine when the gub'ment gets to tell us how we can have sex and who with, what we can ingest and inhale, how/whether to worship something/someone, etc. They just don't like it poking around in our pocketbooks. I have some sympathy for them there, but consider the former stuff to be more important than money.

I eagerly anticipate future arguments to the effect, e.g., that Bush's dishonesty and incompetence prove that he was a wiser choice than Kerry, and that Republican corruption proves that it is imperative for us to allow them to maintain control of Congress...