Is Conservatism Dead?

And did George Will help kill it?

The Boston Globe reports today that George Will, clad no doubt in the glittering uniform of a Tribune of the Praetorian Guard, plans to announce his support for an end to the filibuster in the US Senate. He gives as his reason "anger" over the Supreme Court's disposal of the Juvenile Death Penalty.
Good Ghod that I've lived to see such abominations!
George Will has degenerated into a vain, pompous, death-addicted old nag, a querulous hangman. Somehow without the threat of gallows, Middle Schools all over America will burn...thus George mounts the Rostrum at the Heritage Foundation to scream for blood and power! His beloved Praetorian Class MUST have it's judges, their own snooping cohort of busybodies and Inquistors with which to punish the polity.
Isn't there something ugly and childish about demanding a revolution in Senate affairs because one Supreme Court decision made you "angry"?
Apparently not when you are George Will.
THIS is conservatism...? To seize control of the judiciary, to punish the Supreme Court, and to consolidate the legislature under the whip hand of Bill Frist and the Fred Van Ackerman-esque Rick Santorum, two hundred years of Senate mores is to be expunged.
Lyndon Johnson didn't need to destroy the filibuster to put through the Great Society...FDR required no "reform" of the US Senate to ring in the New Deal. But to put some witchburning wowser on the Court of Appeals, all the rules must bow down!
Where is the respect for law, tradition, and institutions here? Wasn't that once the Holy Trinity of thinkers like Peter Viereck?
All gone now, a surfeit of power has driven these people Caligula-mad quite frankly.