If you are a Republican the worst fear about Democrats taking over Congress was that they might have changed. They might have given up their old ways of badgering businessmen and solving every problem with government spending. What would Republicans do then?
But not to fear. The Democrats running Capitol Hill are the Old Democrats of spending, subsidy, privilege, and micro-managing regulation.
Democrats are trying to add $24 billion in pork to President Bush’s $95 billion request for Iraq, reports Donald Lambro.
Most of the added money stuffed into the emergency supplemental bill, expected to come up for a vote today, is for the kind of costly, pork barrel, special interest, vote-buying handouts Democrats promised they would end if they won control of Congress.
Since the Democrats haven’t changed their spots the political space traditionally occupied by Republicans and conservatives is still available. Even though the Republican Congress sadly betrayed the trust of their supporters in recent years and created an opening for a new, moderate Democratic Party, the Democrats have decided they like their old ways best.
So let’s get back to the important work of formulating ideas and policies to reform the corrupt welfare state and its steadily deteriorating performance in pensions, in education, and in health care.
The American people are counting on us.
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