Spending is a disaster

A depressing account from Bob Novak on spending restraint within the GOP - restaint that does not exist.

 

And Mark Steyn weighs in with the usual clarity

 

Big-time Republicans tell me Bush's profligacy is doing a great job of neutralizing the Dem advantage in the spending-is-caring stakes. This may have been true initially -- in the same sense as undercover cops neutralize a massive heroin-smuggling operation by infiltrating it. But, if they're still running the heroin operation five years later, it looks less like neutralization and more like a change of management.

 

Whoever wins the Republican nomination for 2008 better run as a fiscal conservative - there is so much to be done and it will be so easy to run as an outsider to Washington's spending culture.  Better yet, I hope the Democrats run as fiscally conservative (a stretch, I know, but still possible).  That would really put the heat on the debt loving spendaholics in Washington.