Is Co-Opting the Big Spending Agenda Sound Strategery? If you missed Wednesday's program, you missed a watershed moment in American history: the detailing of the once-great Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson and FDR's collapse. (See: The BIG Theory) I praised a caller named John in Pennsylvania, who did something rare: he used his brain to think about the examples of the trend of co-opting the liberal big-spending agenda as a way to GOP victory. John rightly pointed out that if Tom Daschle had "co-opted" our agenda in the 90s, we'd have claimed victory for the conservative movement. In fact, we...