[dirtboy]

The real question is, who are they listening to now? It sure as hell isn't conservatives.

Last I saw, Bush agreed to spending limits, after listening to top Congressional Republicans, who were listening to their grassroots. So we did get their attention.

[Bikers4Bush]

We haven't gottent their attention at all. They're just positioning themselves in a way to minimize how much the left can talk about spending leading up to the election.

[Huck]

We got their attention. I was one of those complaining directly to them. But, as George Will recently pointed out:

Republicans are swiftly forfeiting the perception that they are especially responsible stewards of government finances. It is surreal for a Republican president to submit a budget to a Republican-controlled Congress and have Republican legislators vow to remove the "waste" that he has included and that they have hitherto funded.

The president does indeed propose killing 65 programs and substantially curtailing 63. But even if Congress fully complies, which it won't, the savings would be just $4.9 billion -- a rounding error in a $2.4 trillion budget. That $4.9 billion would pay less than six days' interest on the national debt.

Sorry. No sale.