It's not Big Government the right distrusts.

Greenwald points out something very interesting about the right. They claim to distrust Big Government - at least, that's their excuse for backing legislation that reduces government oversite of Big Business - but in fact, they trust Big Government implicitly. As he points out:

As much as any policy prescriptions, conservatism has always been based, more than anything else, on a fundamental distrust of the power of the federal government and a corresponding belief that that power ought to be as restrained as possible, particularly when it comes to its application by the Government to American citizens. It was that deeply rooted distrust that led to conservatives’ vigorous advocacy of states’ rights over centralized power in the federal government, accompanied by demands that the intrusion of the Federal Government in the lives of American citizens be minimized.

Is there anything more antithetical to that ethos than the rabid, power-hungry appetites of Bush followers? There is not an iota of distrust of the Federal Government among them. Quite the contrary. Whereas distrust of the government was quite recently a hallmark of conservatism, expressing distrust of George Bush and the expansive governmental powers he is pursuing subjects one to accusations of being a leftist, subversive loon.

Why is this? Simple. Right wingers, as usual, are LYING when they say they distrust Big Government. They don't and the way they defend Bush proves it. They distrust LIBERAL Government. Big Republican Government is just fine by them.