What's the matter with conservatives? Why can't they relax and be happy?

They have the White House, both houses of Congress, the majority of governorships and more money than God. They rule talk-radio and the TV political chat shows, and they get plenty of space in the papers; for all the talk about the liberal media, nine out of the fourteen most widely syndicated columnists are conservatives. Even the National Endowment for the Arts, that direct-mail bonanza of yore, is headed by a Republican now. Never mind whether conservatives deserve to run the country and dominate the discourse; the fact is, for the moment, they do.

Well, they wanted state power, and thanks to the Supreme Court Five, they got it. But unfortunately, running the country turns out to be harder than it looked when Bill Clinton was killing off Hillary's lovers between Cabinet meetings. He made it seem so easy! Now, unemployment is way up, the government's awash in red ink, Iraq is a mess. So, everything has to be someone else's fault--mean liberals who really, really want to win in 2004, Osama-loving pranksters who forward e-mail jokes about the President's IQ, Bill and Hillary, still magically pulling the strings three years after leaving the White House, having thoughtfully arranged for 9/11 before they departed.

They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031020&s=pollitt

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always seem to be worrying that someone else is having fun.

and NOW look at the trouble he's in!

hee hee

mebbe they'll legalize everything now, so they can all relax

they seek absolute power and the control of the hearts and minds of the masses. Judging from the popularity of this website and others like it, I doubt they will ever achieve their goal.

it's a monomania for them.

All that worrying and fretting...wears on their nerves.

EOM