People often get the nuts and bolts confussed with the function of the machine in general.
Conservatives, generaly, old money, moving in the same old ways, mostly for the benefit of the people who have the money. Not necessarily bad for the normal guy, when the high rollers are doing well, they spread it around.
Liberals (seriously) are mostly full of it, they want the money to move in new ways, so they have a chance to grab some on the way by. Make noises, that they are for the common man, most is just an attempt to set up alternative control mechanisms, such as bureacracies, legislation (tax) and intiatives. Boils down to stirring the pot and hoping to get the good stuff, before someone else does.
Conservative inertia, roughly means, what we have, while not perfect, is a known and somewhat functional system.
Liberals, actually have basically one chance in three of improving anything, things tend to stay pretty much the same, get better or get worse. May make some gains in social programs, where 90% of every dollar spent, goes to bureacracies, that traditionally vote the liberal ticket. If there is actually any social improvement, it´s actually pretty much an accident.
Daschel kind of summed up the attitude when he told the guys doing decontamination after the Anthrax attacks, forget the damned Post Office and the low lifes that work there, my office and government is much more important. Daschel (and Kennedy) are the shakers and movers of the party, always making noises about helping the working man. Do you really believe they actually give a darn, I don´t.
Last rant, do you really beleive Sadam was stupid enough NOT to have some nasty surprises stashed around the country. They make a declaration there are WMD, then a declaration there are no WMD. Nuts and bolts, three containers, burried someplace in a country, about the size of Oregon and Washington state together, could take a hundred years to find (they are still finding weapons stashes and unexploded bombs in Germany 50 some years after the war). Three containers, burried in one night by less than thirty people, could contain 120,000 lbs. of some really nasty stuff. Does anybody really believe Sadam doesn´t have enough WMD. burried someplace, to kill every man woman and child in NY city. I´d find it a stretch, to beleive he was stupid enough, not to have some weapons of mass destruction. The only difference between insecticide and nerve gas, is the concentration, the formulas are similiar.
There is a plutonium reprocessing plant not far from where I live, with enough Plutonium (maybe ten pounds) to kill everybody in Germany. Guy was just busted for trying to ship some to Syria.
Try to use your minds a little, instead of regurgitating, what the news media and the political parties feed you.