For all of conservatism's evident virtues, it can have one furtive, seedy vice: A justified suspicion of government can degenerate into an anti-government ideology -- rigid, stingy and indifferent to human suffering.
[From Michael Gerson - Moral Scales in the Senate - washingtonpost.com]
Well there ya go then, Bunky. That must be it. I don't know where the furtive comes from but the seedy is right there. Who knew?
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