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There is certainly a general distaste among conservatives right now.

Social liberals control most of the levers of power in the Senate, and the GOP House is replete with a bunch of pork-barreling get-along-to-go-along pols who have no problems spending the cash of voters, their kids, grandkids, etc.. In other words, at the margins in a closely divided Senate, and at perhaps 1/3 of the House, you'll find GOP liberals. They may have lots of different names for themselves, but they spend the voter's money like a drunken sailor spends cash in a whore house (...ah...speaking as one former sailor who knows).

I think Bush is fundamentally a social conservative, and a fiscal "moderate". Which means, he's willing to spend the voters cash to achive meritorious national goals. In fact, to ensure the politicial base exists to sustain these goals, he's willing to mimic the drunken sailor approach.

What do you think will happen when, and at this point certainly "if", Bush is able to achive something close to a super-majority in the Senate. When one or two RINO's cannot blackmail the entire GOP caucas, when one or two filabustering Democrats cannot be at all sure of sustaining their filabuster? When for the first time in ..what 60 years? a century? ... the GOP has real political power, what will Bush do with it?

Bush has said it in plain terms; political capital evaporates .. it is useless if not spent.

If Bush achives that goal, there will still be RINO's in the Senate, but they will be defanged. There will still be pork-barreling GOP House Leaders, but they will be on notice. (The Democrats, of course, will be relegated to life as a bunch of Dean-iac looneys, making many lies but little sense.) We may see:

A Supreme Court and Judiciary that more reflects the electorate than Berkeley; more the founding fathers than an ACLU coffee klatch; that uses the Constitution as legal authority, rather than as judicial toilet paper.
True fiscal restraint, pairing future expenditures with retirement of redundant, unnecessary, and failed programs.
Tax reform, ending the IRS papermill.
A change in national environmental policy from one of thinly disguised left-wing appropriation of private property and denigration of personal rights, to one which actually and positively benefits the environment, while respecting the rights of the individuals in that environments.
A country where religion is truely "free", where men and women can act on conscience without politically directed, and government reinforced ostracism;
Educational reform that finally, and mercifully includes real "school choice" in the mix, to break the $$$$ stranglehold of unions and professional administrators.
Some really, really frustrated and increasingly bezerk social liberal Democrats.

If this fails to happen with the supermajority, then there will be no hiding what the GOP has become, i.e. the home of the "new Democrats", or the "right wing" of what used to be the Democrat party. The GOP will retain it's majority for about 4 more years, after which, between newly apparent bankruptcy of both the Democrats and Republicans, some new parties gain viable political ground. Bush has this year, and the next four years to succeed. The GOP Congress, perhaps, has even less time.

The clock ran out on the Democrats years ago, they just haven't figured out that they're already dead.

SFS where one can speak their mind without the po