The smaller government talk is just big hype. The empty rhetoric makes for nice sound bytes on the Sunday circuit, but what happens during the week doesn't match the talk.
Among the pork types it is. You have a strain of the GOP which is leaning leftwards inso far as trying to buy bread and circuses and you have the actual small government types who want to shrink things.
The problem is of course that when they want to shrink something, the Left Demagogues the change. Look at what happened with social security. So they're gunshy of actually trying to do so.
But, I suspect that with the way we're growing things by leaps and bounds (what is it 50 million a day at this point?) the GOP will hopefully have a clue. Depends on if Steele actually gets a clue or now. I've certainly been sending some critical e-mails and comments to local and national officials.
Fair points. I suppose I should keep the Wall Street adage "past performance is no guarantee of future results" in mind given the level of flux at present.
Though I do find it surprising that you're complaining about big government strains within the GOP when we have a sitting president that campaigned on transparency, no earmarks, honesty in government, higher ethical standards with regards to lobbyist, fixing benefits issues for veterans and line by line scrutiny of budget legislation before presidential sign off.
If the GOP has any sense, they'll front some proper small government types and they'll get a landslide like in 1994 election. We'll have to hold their feet to the blow torches to keep them there but if they do I see that we'll have a big reverse political reverse for the DNC in about a year and a half.
I absolutely want to see those promises upheld. This presidency hits its 2 month mark on Friday. That is still early in a presidency. I would be curious to see where his campaign promises are compared to past presidents two months in to get a feel for how he is doing. I think he still has time to write his legacy. It seems a bit premature to be calling the next midterm. :)
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The problem is of course that when they want to shrink something, the Left Demagogues the change. Look at what happened with social security. So they're gunshy of actually trying to do so.
But, I suspect that with the way we're growing things by leaps and bounds (what is it 50 million a day at this point?) the GOP will hopefully have a clue. Depends on if Steele actually gets a clue or now. I've certainly been sending some critical e-mails and comments to local and national officials.
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If the GOP has any sense, they'll front some proper small government types and they'll get a landslide like in 1994 election. We'll have to hold their feet to the blow torches to keep them there but if they do I see that we'll have a big reverse political reverse for the DNC in about a year and a half.
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