Interesting online book, The Conservative Nanny State,  bursts the fantasy that the Republican Party is the party of  "free markets"....usually when someone is talking about the virtues of the "free market", it's all hypocrisy.  The Republican Party is interested in "free markets" when it's about privatizing public assets and socializing private risk.

Republican love to endlessly rap about the virtues of the "free market" when it comes to privatizing public programs like Social Security, or public assets like the mineral resources in our National Forests, or letting big Drug companies make huge profits on products that were developed by government funded medical research.  But when it comes to the use of state power to safeguard the wealth and power of the CEO classes, then they are pretty much socialists...in the sense that support laws that make the state responsible for underwriting the risks that businessmen take.

Dean Baker's blog site is worth a regular read as well.

http://www.conservativenannystate.org/

http://beatthepress.blogspot.com/