Encouraging voices in the Republican party
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting story about growing voices in the Republican party who wish for it to loose in the coming mid-term elections. The reasons surprisingly aren’t only, or even mainly, tactical but for ideological reasons:
Three factors are driving the conservative backlash against the Republican-led Congress. Fiscal hawks are furious about the growth of the federal government. Conservative lawyers such as Bruce Fein, who worked in the Nixon Justice Department and Reagan Federal Communications Commission, are upset that Congress allowed President Bush to claim expansive powers to eavesdrop on American citizens and detain suspected militants without trial. Others say the war in Iraq is a costly diversion from the war on terror.
In other words at least two of the three factors coming for the more libertarians parts of the GOP. It is encouraging that some at the GOP didn’t loose sight of what they were trying to achieve. The mid-term elections, and the next presidential primaries will set the republican party course for many years - we can only hope it will be back into smaller, less intrusive government.
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