The essential point that the GOP continues to miss is that citing such individuals as Bachmann, who has no leadership position (and has PLENTY of detractors withing the GOP “leadership”) vs. Frank as evidence that the GOP is “truly different” from the DNC is bankrupt reasoning.
The truth is that the GOP leadership are a bunch of milquetoast pantywaists and fops. They’re useless. They’re best exemplified by people like Steele, Boehner, et al. Weasels and lovers of compromise, all.
The members of the GOP who have some fire, piss and vinegar in them to take on the uncontrolled spending are marginalized, denigrated and ridiculed - by the GOP leadership as well as the opposition.
Beck is right. The GOP, *as a party*, shows very little difference from the DNC on spending. And the leadership is the reason why. The leadership backed the TARP program, the leadership backed Medicare Part D, among other wild spending programs.
I can discern a difference between $300 or $400 billion deficits and $1.4 and $1.9 trillion dollar deficits. I can discern a difference between funding, say the Medicare prescription bill and funding ACORN, Teachers Unions and the SEIU. I can discern a difference between funding NASA at normal levels of increase and cutting its funding.