The elections of 2000 and 2004 transformed their fantasy into reality. They now had complete control of the government and their agendas would now be fulfilled. The only problem is that the competing factions within the conservative movement have different, and often competing agendas.
Here lies their problem. Clay, and more importantly reality, lacks the elasticity to promote fully each of the member partner's agenda. Luckily for us on the left side of the aisle each member partner is also a card carrying member of the take my ball and go home club. The slightest snub is considered an open handed slap in the face to these people. The coalition is surprising frail when in power.
Each member partner is also prone to believe that their agenda is infallible if properly implemented. Since this is impossible to do, the clay man gets ripped apart at the seems, and the players point at the seven torn pieces of clay laying on the floor and place the blame on that drawn and seventh-ed clay man. That is where we are at today. What they don't understand is that even if the clay is gray, it's not the proper matter needed to run a country.
It's call the conservative crackup. Howard Fineman has a pretty good summary of the players in this crackup and their grievances in this MSNBC article. I'm especially amused at the ever incorrect neocons attempt at playing the blame game. From MSNBC.com:
President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the “neocons” who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their own — a political one: Blame the Administration.
Their neo-Wilsonian theory is correct, they insist, but the execution was botched by a Bush team that has turned out to be incompetent, crony-filled, corrupt, unimaginative and weak over a wide range of issues.
Simply delicious.
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