Republican criticism of the Republican House leadership


A candid view
Lawrence Kudlow tells it like it is.

Rep. Roy Blunt, the man who wants to succeed Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader, wrote an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled: “Our Record of Accomplishment Speaks for Itself.” He was referring to House Republicans and he was not being facetious.

Something is rotten in Denmark folks.

“I'm proud of what House Republicans have accomplished on this front over the last several years,” Blunt writes. Hmmm? As House Minority Whip, surely Mr. Blunt cannot be proud of presiding over the $27 billion in earmarks that weaseled their way into appropriations bills last year under the cover of night. Or the $25 billion in earmarks that were attached to the highway transportation bill alone.

Blunt writes about the beneficial effect tax cuts on capital gains and dividends have played on business investment, stock market value, employment and the expansion of the investor class. He adds that the tax cuts have even helped reduce the federal budget deficit through record revenue growth fueled by an expanding economy. And he’s right. However, it is the runaway, pork barrel spending in Congress that jeopardizes the tax-cut extensions on dividends and capital gains. And as I recently wrote in NRO, while supply-side revenues reduced last year’s budget deficit by about $100 billion — moving it down toward $300 billion, or roughly 2.5 percent of GDP — a return to a $400 billion deficit in 2006 as suggested by the White House will be political poison for tax-cut extensions.

Let’s be clear. There is good reason why Americans are fed up with Congress and there is good reason why Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the job the Republicans are doing—over 60 percent in many polls. The reason is simple: The Republican leadership has lost its way. It has orphaned its core principles of lower spending, smaller government and ethical governance. As House Majority Whip, a fair share of blame rests on Mr. Blunt’s shoulders.

This is one of the better criticisms of the Republican nonsense that is going on in Congress right now.

Neither party can be trusted to look out for your best interests. I want to really stress that.

Both major parties will promise you the Moon with an option on Mars if they think it will distract you long enough to vote for them. It's not a matter of "cleaning up Congress" because those members of Congress are the ones who created the mess to begin with.

If you want to clean up Congress, get Congress out of the regulation biz so no one except the voters has an interest in influencing what Congressmen do.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - January 21, 2006 at 04:35 AM  Tag


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