[Alberta's Child]

The biggest problem the Republican Party has in terms of credibility with conservative voters is that their track record is too recent. The last time we had a Republican in the White House and Republican control of both Houses of Congress we got things like the Homeland Security Dept., the Patriot Act, a new Medicare prescription drug entitlement, and massive increases in Federal spending (the Federal budget grew by something like 58% just in the eight years of the Bush administration).

Forget about Republicans opposing a Democratic agenda. What is the purposes of electing Republicans if they actually IMPLEMENT a Democratic agenda?

[C. Edmund Wright]

You exaggerated and over simplified - and miss that the biggest problem then might well have been the White House - run by a man many conservatives just loved (at the time) because he (claimed to be) was pro life. Period. And then again, you ignored 9-11 from your analysis too.

Moreover, a small majority in the Senate is “not control” of anything really. And much of the growth in government is that damned baseline budgeting, which would require a super majority to over turn.

But your main mistake was trying to make false equivalencies. There is no way that the Bush / Hastert / Frist cabal was anything like the Obama / Pelosi / Reid cabal was. That’s just not even close.