If the only motivation for Republicans is the next election, and the one after that, ad infinitum, why have any Republicans in Congress at all? Why have a Republican Party, which once was supposedly the party of small government, low taxes and individual responsibility? Now it seems the GOP has joined the other side and has become part of the problem rather than the solution.It's ALWAYS been this way. we're just now starting to notice. Well...Cal is just starting to notice. As Patrick Buchanan said 30 years ago...'there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.'