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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: EXCESS BAGGAGE. Greg Anrig reports on how the incoming Democratic majority will face an uphill battle to undo the damage done during conservatives' years in power.
It is crucial to understand that it�s not merely Republicans� incompetence or political pandering that has left the government in shambles. Rather, many of their acts of sabotage were premeditated, often hatched in right-wing think tanks. The central if unstated mission of those idea factories, and their leading funders, is to weaken the public sector in order to minimize its capacity to tax and regulate the private sector. But because the general public doesn't actually share conservatism's deep hostility toward government, their most effective tactics rely on subterfuge and operate in ways that can't be easily detected.Now, Anrig writes, it's up to the Dems to shine a light on these practices, and connect the federal government's failures since 2001 with the conservative ideology out of which they were born. Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
