Republicans Pander Future

The NY Times finally gets around to the obligatory article on the Conservative Crisis. As Douthat points out, though, the easiest, if most ineffective path is for the GOP to do nothing. This is why McCain bore down so hard on "earmarks" - it sounds vaguely reformist while threatening no one except a few incumbents. It's like "waste, fraud and abuse".....the Huey, Dewey and Louie of the 1980's.