Apparently I am not the only one who is dismayed by how unrpomising the second term of Bush II is turning out to be. Reform is going nowehere, we are spending like drunken sailors, and Republican's are pushing stupid and devisive issue like the judicial fillibuster and limitations on stem cell. What happened to getting government off the backs of the American people as a guiding principle, if not always a reality? From Larry Kudlow at RealClearPolitics.
Conservatives were near ecstatic last November when President Bush won handily and the Republicans strengthened their hold in Congress. Hopes were high that little could stop the implementation of a true conservative agenda, one that featured supply-side economic reform, investor-owned Social Security reform, serious budget restraint, large-scale energy deregulation, legal-abuse-curbing tort reform, and the confirmation of pro-business, pro-life judicial nominees. But the hoped-for domestic-reform agenda has gone nowhere.
It is as if the Republican's had a rare power play potential in 2005, but the window is closing Tthe democrats are going to have a comeback in 2006 and 2008, and an opportunity to achieve all sorts of more moderate reform is going to be lost.
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