Republicans became power-hungry spenders - St. Paul Pioneer Press

[rndmprsn]

feel like telling them...sorry suckers, you were played, but please go ahead and form your third-party.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/14636261.htm

Conservatives tolerated the No Child Left Behind Act, an extensive intrusion into state and local education, and the budget-busting Medicare prescription drug benefit. They tolerated the greatest increase in spending since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They tolerated Bush's failure to veto a single bill, and his refusal to enforce immigration laws. They even tolerated his signing of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance overhaul, even though Bush's opposition to that measure was a key reason they backed him over Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the 2000 primaries.

In 2004, Republican leaders pleaded with conservatives — particularly religious conservatives — to register people to vote and help them turn out on Election Day. Those efforts strengthened Republicans in Congress and probably saved the Bush presidency. We were told: Just wait till the second term. Then, the president, freed of concern over re-election and backed by a Republican Congress, would take off the gloves and fight for the conservative agenda. Just wait.

We're still waiting.

...For years, congressional Republicans have sold themselves to conservatives as the continuation of the Reagan revolution. We were told that they would take on the Washington special interests — that they would, in essence, tear down K Street and sow the earth with salt to make sure nothing ever grew there again.

But over time, most of them turned into the sort of unprincipled power brokers they had ousted in 1994. They lost interest in furthering conservative ideas, and they turned their attention to getting their share of the pork. Conservatives did not spend decades going door to door, staffing phone banks and compiling lists of like-minded voters so Republican congressmen could have highways named after them and so there could be an affirmative-action program for Republican lobbyists.

[Minnesota Libra]

1. People here are so peeved from what I hear and I have a feeling...........

....the :puke: neocons/fundies are going to pay and pay dearly in November.:headbang: I for one can't wait.:yourock:

[zbdent]

2. And Bush never met a Republican budget that he didn't like

remember, he has YET to veto a bill . . . so he approves of all their spending . . .