HOUSE REPUBLICANS GET AN "F" – BUT THERE IS A CHANCE TO IMPROVE
This morning, in the wee hours, I read a column from Sacramento Area Congressman Dan Lungren, in which he feels that there should be a new election for all of the GOP leadership, from Speaker on down. But from reading the first paragraph of his column, I’m not sure he wants to do this for the right reasons. You see, the second sentence says it all:
Lungren, who is ‘back’ in Congress, re-elected after being out of the House for over a decade, should have an outsider’s perspective – I guess not.
Let me help, if we are going to ‘clean House’ as he says, let’s do it for one reason alone – the Republican majority in Congress has failed in its only core mission. It receives a failing grade in the only criteria that should matter. Under a decade of Republican leadership, has the House of Representatives substantially reduced the size and scope of the federal government? No. Have they reduced the size of government at all? No. Is the federal government larger today than at any time in the history of our democratic republic? YES. The numbers are staggering, and I will share them in a minute.
Lungren is not alone in drinking the proverbial cool-aid. I recently read a column from Congressman Roy Blunt in the Wall Street Journal. Blunt is in a three-way battle to replace Tom DeLay as Majority Leader. His piece was called, "Party of Limited Government: Our record of accomplishment speaks for itself."
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January 24th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Amen Jon to that. The Republicans have been all lip service when it comes to shrinking the size and scope of government. It’s not even a dirty little secret at this point. Roy Blunt is part of the problem, not the solution. I love how he came out and proclaimed himself the new Majority Leader with only like 80 something public supporters. I’m sure none of the reps are lying to him, LOL. Luckily for Shadegg, this is a secret ballot so reps that publicly or privately committed to Blunt and Boehner can vote for secret for John Shadegg.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The spending is profligate and ceaseless. Let’s face facts…we have a congress that loves to spend and a president who never uses the veto. It’s painful to watch and endure.