Today's "conservatives" - the people formerly known as the "radical right" - don't think of a deal as a deal; they think of it as an opportunity to pull yet another bait and switch.
This article is well worth reading today -- know your enemy!
As aWol's maladministration triangulates toward the center in preparation for 2004, we're going to see a lot of bait; and from 2005 on we're going to see a lot of switch.
And the hapless, feckless Beltway Dems sleepwalk to destruction, thinking "business as usual" ... Sigh...