If you can convince me that's a conservative agenda, I'll eat the iMac on which this post was written.
I'm certain his digestive tract is safe (as well as his iMac).
George Orwell would be laughing.
I commented on the post, but it is held for moderation.:
"If you look at the Martin Wolf piece, it seems he's using the term in the sense of "cautious" and "trying to preserve a status quo"Maybe, but that's the crazy part. Obama only has control over the office HE holds, not everything in the world that is none of his business/authority. The "status quo" in conservatism refers to the duties, responsibilities, and authority of the President (or other branches of government) and the approach (radical or incremental change) to addressing issues.
In no way has Obama, by instantly inventing powers he does not have, or creating powers that are specifically denied to him by the Constitution, been maintaining the "status quo" of HIS authority.
How could anyone get the definition of political conservatism any more wrong? He might as well have invented a new word, if words no longer have any fixed meaning. Conservative means "no radical change" as its opposite is "Radicalism" not (as is often the wrong antonym) "Liberal." Everything about the way the government has handled the financial crisis is radical, in every way.
That may have been what the author intended, but that's the problem. He's moved the goal posts, not only to a different place on the field, but to a different planet.
If conservative now means radical, what does radical mean? Super-duper-gimormous-plus-one-radical?
H/t Instapundit.com
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