We Refuse to Support a Permanent Minority

OK, so here it is... the actual editorial to which I referred in an earlier post.  The title of it is the same as this post, and its intent is simple: to return to its core principles the only party which, if rightly piloted, could right our country's economic ship.

Congressional Republican leaders clearly have no idea what we, their fellow GOP members (and financial backers), say to one another when we get together, yet for years one refrain has been constant: our extreme discontent over how the former GOP majority blew it on spending.

Budget earmarks, which jumped by 285% between 1994 and 2005 as their cost soared by 60%, stand as the perfect symbol of the GOP-led profligacy that drives us crazy still. In and of themselves, earmarks are admittedly a small part in the budget process, amounting to roughly 2% of the federal budget in 2005.  Yet they epitomize the fiscal recklessness that led to Republicans becoming a minority in 2006.

Unable to rein it in on the smaller earmark items, it's no wonder the Republican leadership continued to fail on the more critical structural spending issues such as...

...the rest of this article can be read here, carried exclusively by RedCounty.com

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