Bloggers Take On Conservative Failure

While we were commemorating the Failure of Conservatism in DC yesterday, what was the blogosphere doing?

D-Day saw conservative failure in the melamine scandal: "Conservatives care nothing about government, and yet they act surprised when the mechanisms of government breaks down. They will somehow try to blame liberals for dismantling the public safety apparatus that has served the country well for decades. But this is an obvious conclusion to the consistent attempts to delegitimize government, drown the funding of public programs in a bathtub and staff regulatory agencies with the lobbyists for the industries they mean to regulate."

Speak Out California! sums it up: "It's all comes down to enforcing moral orders with conservatives, and the overwhelming majority of Americans don't want to live in the country that results from this kind of dog eat dog approach."

Hullabaloo looked ahead to the presidential debate last night: "It's somewhat telling that Republicans have to go back a quarter century to find [conservative] idols they can sell considering they owned the congress for the past 12 years and the presidency for the past six, but there you have it."

Taylor Marsh, reacting to Robert Borosage's oped, offered: "Any party who disdains government as much as they do can't be trusted to run it, which has been proven through Mr. Bush's incompetence from Katrina, to our debt, to the military collapse, all the way to the cronyism in Iraq, as well as the stubbornness that will not allow Mr. Bush and his party to admit Iraq is now for the Iraqis to change on their own."

A picture is worth a thousand words at Majikthise and This Modern World.

The Kuttner-Kristol debate video was posted at Crooks and Liars and the commenters had a mouthful to say.

And a big thanks goes out to all the blogs that helped promote the Failure of Conservatism Conference, as well as Conservative Failure Buzzword Bingo: Mercury Rising, The Right's Field, Northwest Progressive Institute, The Garance, No One of Consequence, Peak Dems, No Straw Men, OnTheCusp, and MyDD.

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