GOP Economic Snake Oil

Interesting opinion in today's Wall Street Journal :

"The GOP Peddles Economic Snake Oil
Suddenly Republicans are against market values?"

Some key points:

"The central axiom of conservative Republicanism is that government is inherently corrupt and can't do anything right
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Yet now we are supposed to vote for more conservative Republicans because we learned from the last bunch of conservative Republicans that government doesn't work."
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"Conservative misrule, prompted by conservative disdain for government, proves that government cannot be trusted -- and that the only answer is to elect another round of government-denouncing conservatives."

Wow. As the article says...

"Cynicism" seems too small a word for this circular kind of political fraud. "

Read the whole thing here