E J Dionne - Still in Wonderland

I hope Alice is bringing Mr. Dionne some pills to make him big again. I made the mistake of stopping by the Washington Post editorial section today and read his article on Republicans rebranding themselves. Included in his article were these howlers about Republicans porking out at the government trough.

It's also a response to the failure of conservative policies and to the declining appeal of conservative rhetoric. Conservatives are trying to save themselves by offering progressive-sounding criticisms of the status quo, much as liberals offered ersatz conservative critiques two decades ago.

What on Earth is he talking about? Has he seen the federal budget lately? Spending on poverty is absolutely colossal. It hasn't gone down, it's gone up, up, up. Smaller government? I don't think so. Here's a great quote from Rick Santorum who is petulant because his supporters expected him to behave like an adult with their money instead of going on a six year bender.

Poverty is a big deal to him, Santorum explained, because "if you want me to be honest, I'm a Catholic." He added: "How many times did the nuns beat into your brains: the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor?"

Santorum has got his hand in the cookie jar all the way to the elbow. Entitlement spending has gone up 4.7% and domestic spending has gone up 7.1% per year after inflation for the last six years. Dionne knows this. Santorum knows this.

Santorum is frantically buying votes with our money and Dionne is just flat out lying.