Over at NRO this week, Cato scholar Michael Tanner takes issue with Republicans who, when it comes to spending, seem to be willing to talk, but not walk.
Citing NRCC Chair Greg Walden’s reaction to President Obama’s budget a few weeks ago, in which he lambasted the President over cuts to Social Security instead of the budget’s trillions in new spending, debt, and taxes, Tanner wonders if Republicans are actually serious about this spending thing.
Tanner goes on to list many more examples of Republican meekness involving defense, farm subsidies, NASA funding, and more, coming to the same conclusion that we painfully reach seemingly each and every time:
Members, regardless of party, consistently abandon principle when their own interests are challenged.
If you’ll remember, Ending Spending confronted a huge part of this problem in 2011 by successfully lobbying for an earmark moratorium by House Republicans. It is, to this date, one of our proudest achievements.
Lest we run a victory lap, Tanner’s post reminds us that the work is far from over, even among those who are seemingly friendliest to our cause of solving our nation’s spending crisis.
http://nationalreview.com/article/347041/how-serious-are-republicans/page/0/1
