If the economy recovers or not the GOP is much better in the long run if it stands on fiscal discipline and balanced budgets (including, IMO, easing the obsession with tax cuts).
Rove’s political expediency gave us “compassionate conservatism,” and the Medicare RX bill, No Child Left Behind, ballooning deficits, etc. and it’s why politically the GOP is in the state it is today.
No surprise if Rove thinks Republicans should sign on to this disaster. He and Bush spent 8 yrs. trying to spend us into oblivion, so it stands to reason that he would support more of the same only bigger and better. The elites belong to one party, the Big Gov't one, regardless of what they call themselves.