Republicans need a wake-up call

Lauderback and Pence hit the nail on the head.

"What conservatives have realized during the last five years is that we have not elected a conservative president," said Bill Lauderback, executive vice president of the American Conservative Union. "Nor do we have a conservative majority in either the House or Senate."
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"We are in danger of becoming the party of big government," said Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee.
Pence said he and his allies in Congress plan to make sure that trend is reversed.
"The era of big Republican government is over," Pence said....

Just as Republicans needed Jim Doyle to win the governor's seat in Wisconsin in 2002 to send them a wake-up call, Republicans just might need to see their Congressional majority in the US House of Representatives up-ended. War or no war, 9/11 or no 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or no Hurricane Katrina - the "spend, spend, and spend some more" policy has got to stop!