Eugene Robinson's column in today's Washington Post highlights the hypocrisy that is the Republican party.  Over the last two generations Republicans have championed a government that governs least.  This despite the fact that Republicans have failed to ever live up to their ideology.  As John Gallbrith said in his recent book, The Predator State, conservatives have never believed in free markets unless it served their own political interests, which is bearing out given the current solutions to the economic crisis. In another book, How Conservatives Rule, Thomas Frank notes that conservatives have run under the deceptive banner of small government to dismantle the government to serve their own personal and political ends.  All this shows is that the Republican Band lacks any authenticity.