Whoops. My use of the passive voice sentence was muddled. i was trying to take the personal away to simply talk about a party move rather than a person making the party move. Let's see, what can I blame for that, perhaps the laptop keyboard. ;-)
On that list you are looking for, perhaps we might wish to divide, first, the cultural and the economic from one another. On the cultural level, choice, gay rights, etc., the Bush folk have campaigned as further right. And, in doing so, they've helped elect more further right folk at both the senatorial and house levels. The furthrest right would be to sponsor constitutional amendments. They have not done that. Perhaps that's what you have in mind.
On the economic front, I think the left/right distinction breaks down again. The steel protectionism was neither left nor right. Simply, crass political protection. The prescription drug bill does not meet left/right distinctions because it's clearly a bill to repay the drug industry for campaign financing support. Among other things. Money to fund the war in Iraq which increases the deficit mightily is not exactly left/right. Etc. |
