***Unfortunately NO one in Washington, not even our so- called conservative elected leaders, has shown any beliefs in our economic freedom.***
Well there is this one guy... but obviously he’s a kook.
Before the election this was considered heresy but the Republican party had to lose election big for this reason. This trend by Republicans would get worse if McCain had won with a democrat congress. GWB refused to veto republican spending bills and was happy as long as he got his spending. Then in 2007 it got worse as he decided it was his job to “get things done” and “do big things”. Add the media prompting, democrats attacks, GWB sinking legacy and you end up with a president that will give in on ‘anything’ to get continued Iraq war funding, and seems to think he can ‘buy’ his failed legacy with borrowed money.
We can only hope that republicans double loss stirs a revival like in 1993. See:
The Why We Should Take a Solutions Approach to the Crisis and Look at Some Things Differently
From writing: The 2008 election features two candidates likely to make the current problems worse. Ironically, Barack Obama, whose policies would likely prove even more disastrous than McCain’s, probably represents the lesser of the two evils. This is because Obama is perceived to be the candidate of big government, while McCain has wrapped himself in the false trappings of small government.In the unlikely event McCain wins, he will be the Herbert Hoover of the modern era, completely discrediting capitalism in the minds of the electorate and setting the stage for a disastrous ideological counterreaction in the election that follows.If Obama wins, however, while the economy will fare even worse, it will at least be clear that big government is to blame. By the end of Obama’s term, the voters will have had such a bellyful of noxious government solutions that the mere thought of any more will put them squarely at the wheel of the porcelain bus. In such an environment, a Ron Paul type of Republican, dismissed as unelectable à la Ronald Reagan in 1976, may actually be in a position to capture the White House in 2012 and finish the job Ronald Reagan started.