A Boston Tea Party …(Not Another Word)

The Democrats reaction was to President Bush’s budget was expected. It has always been obvious to me that their stance on deficits was hypocritical. It is all about raising taxes to balance the budget. Have you ever heard one single Democrat name a federal program that should be done away with? Don’t hold your breath, it will never happen.

Something that needs to happen is that a Republican controlled Congress needs to finally walk the walk rather than talk the talk. There will be no excuses if spending is not cut. It is already being debated whether Republicans will fall in line and support Bush’s budget. The word conservatism should be considered obsolete if Republicans lose the will power to act on spending cuts. They are right on lowering taxes and now need to be legitimate deficits hawks. If they choose too keep the status quo then it should be expected that we don’t hear another word on deficits. Two trillion dollars is being spent in this budget and they can’t find any waste? There should easily be twice as many programs that should be eliminated than the 150 Bush is asking for. Republicans in the next few weeks will make it obvious to me whether they are real or fake conservatives. I hope for the best but recent history says it won’t happen. If this opportunity for deficit reduction is lost then I guess deficits don’t really matter to either party.