[wollongong]

I thought 'conservatives' and Murdochs Wall Street Journal hated "big government" and government intervention? But if it's in the interest of protecting corporate monopolies and profits they like it? How about some more tax payer subsidized bailouts to failed corporations while we're at it?

[hugh3]

This is the kind of comment that isn't helpful.

I really have no idea why you're assigning one columnist's opinion to "conservatives" in general, nor charging hypocrisy based on one rather carefully-reasoned opinion that maybe one arm of the Government should overrule the decisions of another arm of the Government. And I'm especially not sure why you think it's all about 'protecting corporate monopolies' when such a decision, if made, would merely be taking the side of one huge company against another huge company, and furthermore on the anti-monopolistic side.

I suspect, therefore, that you may be letting preexisting political opinions cloud your judgement.