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Article: Senate Republicans ought to act like it: ; Conservatives win big when they stand for principle
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 4, 2009
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A brief glimmer of sanity among congressional Republicans has
been followed, almost immediately, by a return to the more
traditional Washington insanity.
Last week, every single Republican in the House of
Representatives voted against the Obama administration's "stimulus"
package, which had stimulated an orgy of runaway spending by
congressional Democrats on everything from sports arenas to sexually
transmitted diseases.
This was a rare smart move by the Republicans. If Republicans had
gone along, pursuing the will o' the wisp of "bipartisanship," then
if the stimulus had by some miracle succeeded, it would have been a
bill for which Democrats would claim credit at the next election.
On the ...