Yes, they have been bitching ever since, and with good reason. We were sold on the "smaller, less intrusive government" arguments in 94. We backed the party, even after that promise went out the window. We grudgingly went along as the appropriations bills got higher and higher, believing that if the GOP got control of congress AND the White House that things would finally pan out. And what did we get...? The biggest expansion of entitlements and descretionary spending since LBJ! And now, after ten years of broken promises, the party loyalists are pissed that we dare to complain about it.
Politics is the art of the possible, and the "true believers" don't seem to have a clue as to how this game is played.
If catering to the soccer moms at the expense of the constitutionalists is what the party wants, then it will have no one to blame but itself when the soccer moms bail on them. If you think that people like me are disloyal, wait and see how the soccer moms drop the GOP like a bad habit when the other party cranks up the "for the children" music a little louder.
...and now, on Free Republic, of all places, you're told to lie back and enjoy it. Yes, this Administration spends money like a drunken sailor at Subic, yes, President Bush has barely made a start on conservative agendas, but if you complain, you must be an UNAPPEASABLE DEAN SUPPORTER. Must be, there couldn't be any other reason.