They Can’t Help It

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. And racists will be racist.

Also — I had hoped to write a commentary on “How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism,” but ran out of time. I’ll be busy most of today and won’t be back until this evening. Here’s Hilzoy’s comment.

In a nutshell, movement conservatives are terrified that President Obama will deliver government that works, particularly in the area of health care. Movement conservatism requires government that doesn’t work. Or, at least, doesn’t work as government. Instead, movement conservative government is a big clown show in Washington that ignores the real needs of citizens and the nation but does a bang-up job transferring tax money into the pockets of the wealthy elite and the politicians who maintain the movement conservatism status quo (there’s your “redistribution of wealth,” folks).

If President Obama is able to reform government and make it do things that people actually need it to do, there goes the neighborhood, so to speak.