If the GOP Congress abandons the Bush tax cuts and continues spending like a drunken sailor, it will no longer be home to conservatives. PresBush was successful in his first term because he pushed through three significant tax cuts that together gave more tax relief then Reagan's 1981 Tax Reform Act. Thereby removing funds from the budgetary coffers and leaving less for the feds to spend. Bush`s spending on social programs like education and medicare are the policies of a big governemnt Republican and out of step with the conservative agenda and the recent policy agenda of the GOP. To remain successful, the GOP needs to get back to political planning that promotes policies like the Contract With America.
Truth be told I want MORE tax cuts AND a BIGGER federal deficit. For exactly the reasons the Democrats and their RINO friends oppose them.
The GOP will have supporters even if it promotes government medicine and a 75% tax rate.... because the Democrats want it at 80%. All third-party supporters will still be called names.