I hate to sound pessimistic, but after seeing Ted Stevens (R), Alaska, throw his hissy fit on the Senate floor threatening to quit the Senate if anyone dared touch his enormous pork, spending hundreds of millions on two bridges to nowhere, then it looks pretty grim.
I know there are great conservative Republicans in congress. Trouble is, they're too few and grossly outnumbered by the free wheeling spenders. There needs to be a HUGE overhaul in Washington.