Republicans Who Want to Stay in the Minority by Jon Fleischman
The Bear on May 22 2008 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Election 08’, Politics
Republicans Who Voted For The “Big Government” Farm Bill Want The GOP To Stay In The Minority
We have some big challenges facing the Republican Party in Congress right now. The GOP lost our majority 2006 in a large part because our party became that which we opposed - the party of big spending. When the 2006 elections were over, the Club for Growth conducted surveys in 15 competitive House seats (where neither candidate was tainted with scandal) and guess what they found out? The GOP had completely lost its fiscal conservative branding. The most startling results was when those polled asked which political party in Washington was “The Party of Big Government” - the results? Republicans 39.3% and Democrats 27.9% - shocking, and sad. (Read more about the CfG survey here).
Yesterday, the lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal was all about how the Republicans, now in the minority in Congress, still don’t get it (in terms of the need for fiscal restraint). Here is an excerpt:
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This is the lesson Republicans should have learned in 2006, but the Members preferred to blame their failure on President Bush and Iraq. House Republicans pooh-poohed their own earmarking scandals, spending excesses and overall wallowing in the Beltway status quo. Rather than rethink their habits, they re-elected the same party leaders and even kept Jerry Lewis as their chief Appropriator. Congressman John Shadegg of Arizona is right when he says that “Since the 2006 elections, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to redefine themselves. We can’t even get behind an earmark moratorium bill.”
Facing this terrible challenge as a political party, along comes the final vote on the grotesque and bloated Farm Bill.
Before we go on, let’s look more closely at the Farm Bill…
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