RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

There are Republicans that truly understand how dangerous the past is in rejecting the conservative ideals that took them to power in 94.  And understand how they were punished for their out-of-control spending in 06.  Yet, the Republican Party has chosen the path of continued pork. outrageous spending and a leftward leap as their best bet to take back the Congress and elect a President.  They are truly in for a shock in November

RealClearPolitics - Articles - GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

GOP Drinking Its Bath Water

By Robert Novak

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, at age 38 and having served less than five terms, did not leap over a dozen of his seniors to become ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee by bashing GOP leaders. But an angry Ryan last Wednesday delivered unscripted remarks on the House floor as the farm bill neared passage: "This bill is an absence of leadership. This bill shows we are not leading."

Ryan's fellow reformer, 45-year-old Jeff Flake of Arizona, in his fourth term, is less cautious about defying the leadership and has been kept off key committees. On Wednesday, he said of a $300 billion bill that raises farm subsidies and is filled with non-farm pork, "Sometimes, here in Washington, we tend to drink our own bath water and believe our own press releases."