[BlueNgold]

Did ya ever notice...
It always seems to be the party in the minority that plays the watchdog role regarding spending. I applaud any efforts to cut down on wasteful and unnecessary spending. However, based on recent history, I am not at all confident that we will do any better when we finally regain the majority in Congress. Part of the reason we ARE the minority is because our own leadership was complicit in this same kind of ridiculous largess.

[smoothsailing]

It's a good point. I've often argued that the 2006 election was lost by the R's primarily because they were percieved to have abandoned their fiscal conservative principles.

[kindred]

[However, based on recent history, I am not at all confident that we will do any better when we finally regain the majority in Congress. Part of the reason we ARE the minority is because our own leadership was complicit in this same kind of ridiculous largess.]

Indeed, indeed. This is another good reason to abandon the rino GOP and start a third party conservative movement to attempt to regain conservative representitives in the corrupt DC administration. It is possible that the GOP would collapse then and the conservatives could elect conservatives to do the right thing in the DC Congress and executive and judicial areas. Right now, D.C. is corrupt and can no longer do the conservative thing as we are not represented by conservatives but rather by liberal lites.