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I see. So what you're saying is that we have to wait until the Republicans get a filibuster-proof majority before they're going to find their backbone?

Tax cuts don't mean squat if government is still growing! Recall the No Child Left Behind Act? It was written by Ted Kennedy and signed by President Bush. It vastly expanded the power of the Department of Education. That's the same Department of Education that the Repubs promised to eliminate in the Contract With America.

I don't see a sufficient difference between the two parties to care who gets elected. I will care if the Republicans stop this new tone crap, drag the Democrats around by the balls and embrace fully the idea of radically smaller government.

Until then, the Repubs are just pretenders.

The GOP has not had the power the Democrat Party has in my lifetime or the lifetime of most Americans. So to claim both parties are the same (as both the Libertarian Party and the Communist Party USA do) is absurd. The mantra is designed to elect Democrats.

Government has grown since there was an American government. As population and wealth increase, so does the size of government. There is no political support anywhere to eliminate the programs which case the most growth--Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

What is important is how large government is compared to GDP. GOP policies reduce the government cut of the ecomony . Democrats enlarge it. The more left wing you go, the more GDP is eaten by government.

You want Charlie Rangel writing the tax code in the next Congress to "teach the GOP a lesson" you go for it. I don't care. The LP is irrelevent now. The third party next time will be clearly on the left. The days of Reform or the LP pretending to be for limited government are over. Both have been exposed as frauds (Reform by CFR, the LP by the Libertarian/ANSWER alliance against the Iraq War).