Between Bush's out of control spending, Ted Stevens' pork barrel spending for Alaska ("bridges to nowhere") and now, Trent Lott's attack on the appropriations reform, who is actually getting excited these days about the Republicans having a permanent majority besides cheerleaders like Hugh Hewitt? There are no real competitive advantages that the Republicans have anymore. They have lost the limited government credential, they have lost the effective government credential and the immigration issue has put their whole national security credential in question for those who didn't already see right through it.

Cut the starry-eyed true believer crap people. It's time to get serious about this. If you care about abortion, civil rights, taxes, national security and all of that jazz, you are wasting your votes on the Republicans because they have governed to the left of Bill Clinton. Dubya has done the same things as Bubba on immigration, has spent ridiculously at a time when we cannot afford it and has mismanaged our military operations in Iraq to an unacceptably disgraceful level. It's time to put that tired mantra that the Republicans must be elected because the Democrats are worse aside, and stop lying to yourselves. The only difference between a typical Democrat and Republican in the Congress is that the latter go to church more often. That's it.

We have well over $1T of new national debt thanks to Bush, debt that was totally unnecessary for the military operations against our Islamist enemies. Bush overspent so much that he "couldn't find any money" for 10,000 new border patrol agents for the southern border. I'm sick of the excuses like Kerry or Gore would have been worse. No, they wouldn't have been worse. If Bush lost in 2004, it just might have caused the Republicans to become a little bit conservative again. They might have gone attack dog on Kerry for the border issue, and found a way to get those 10,000 new border patrol agents.