"Compassionate conservatism," redundant

Interesting study (here) about the compassion of Conservatism. I've posted on this phenomenon before, but it bears repeating.

Which reminds me of the clip I you-tubed yesterday (here) of a campaign appearance by Congressman-elect Heath Shuler (D-NC) in which Shuler explains why he is a Democrat (actually, why his grandmaw is a Democrat).

So many people (esp. Dems) gloss over the issue of whether government should be taking money from one citizen to "show compassion" to another citizen. To quote a econ prof friend, "Gov't is intended to be an instrument of justice; when gov't tries to be an instrument of mercy, it becomes an instrument of injustice."