[George W. Bush]

No problem with that. I did the same. I get letters asking for money from RNC and NSRC. This month I sent letters back not with money but telling them they need to clean up their act on spending and on immigration if they want my money.

Excellent! If only more people would do exactly the same.

Check the latest Novak column - they are listening! Its why Bush is proposing 0.5% discretionary spending increase instead of 4%. It was exactly the point I've made in communications to them!

Without the current stink from the conservatives, we would have had that 4% increase, if not more.

Rove had better not hold his breath waiting for us to applaud this 'mere' 0.5% discretionary increase. After last year's spending and the huge new Pill Bill, I expect cuts to offset this wild spending.

Start with the NEA and the Departments of Education and Labor. They've had plenty of increases under a GOP Congress already.

I'm looking for cuts. Lower spending, less government. The classic Reagan conservative agenda.

[WOSG]

We are close to getting that spending-restraint agenda in place:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069034/posts?page=12#12

Let me repeat what I've said in another thread.

The path is clear for conservatives, and quite simple:
1. Make the Republican Party the majority party in America.
2. Make the Republican Party a principled, conservative party.

Note that both #1 and #2 are needed. Each by itself is not enough.

We are wasting energy if we do things that hurt this path to saving America.