Sure that's not just projection?

The great thing about the Neocons is there are a lot of things they won't say or do or refrain from saying or doing, just to be popular. That's precisely what pisses people off about them.

I'm a proud member of the progessive Right, which is more or less the same thing as the Neocons, probably. (It's exactly the same thing as a late 19th century liberal.) And I've got a naked lust for specific, requisite means to specific, laudable ends.

Power for the sake of power is something George Orwell rightly associated with the Left. Those guys will say or do *anything* to get and keep power. Including betray their own stated ends.

Oh, and fiscal responsbility doesn't mean at all the same thing in wartime as in peacetime.