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Perhaps people are missing the strategy here. The only reason that many Democrats are in favor of signing onto increasing government largesse is that the program through it is dispensed is designated as a Democrat program, brought to you by the good and benevolent folk that represent your gerrymandered minority-and-Democrat majority district. These programs, however, turn out in the end to be largely "feel-good" and do more to feed the bureaucracy than to serve the need for which it was created.

Now there is a subtle difference in the "big-government" spending plans that are put forth by the Republican majority and those that are put forth in years past by Democrat majorities. The Republican program is designed to actually engage and mitigate the problem it is supposed to address, while the Democrat programs only built constituencies amd propagated the problem into eternity.

If you can't stop the locomotive, at least switch it onto the tracks you want it to follow.

Perhaps people are missing the strategy here.
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Now there is a subtle difference in the "big-government" spending plans that are put forth by the Republican majority and those that are put forth in years past by Democrat majorities. The Republican program is designed to actually engage and mitigate the problem it is supposed to address, while the Democrat programs only built constituencies amd propagated the problem into eternity.

If you can't stop the locomotive, at least switch it onto the tracks you want it to follow.

The strategy is to grow a smaller government by making it bigger, trusting that it will all work out in the end.
The GOP motto ought to be "never seize a victory today, when there are empty promises to be gained for tomorrow."
Back-end promises to conservatives are never kept.
Or did I get the Supreme Court's CFR decision wrong?
The strategy of squandering the goodwill gained by the President's performance on the War on Terror an a government somewhat less rapid than the Democrats might wish, is bankrupt and has been from the start, the very persuasive handringing about getting "beat up by the media" notwithstanding.