NRO’s post-mortem on the British election is a sane and insightful one. I agree with almost all of it. But it is weird to read in NRO the following sentence:
[The Tories] have the leisure, the time, and the stability to rethink their distinctly timid economic strategy and to invest in building and selling a new one rooted in limited government.
So NRO now supports limited government? So why have they not blasted consistently at George W. Bush’s complete abandonment of limited government and fiscal balance? As I have written before, Tony Blair’s incremental increase in government spending is pure Thatcherism compared to Bush’s big government explosion. Wouldn’t it be great if NRO actually used the same principles it deploys against Blair and Howard against Bush? And don’t give me the excuse of occasional pathetic worries about Bush’s spending. If a Democrat had Bush’s record, NRO’s assault on him would be daily and relentless. Draw your own conclusions.
The Dish 