Get Your Blog Up

“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, June 30, 2005

No room for dissent

Wow (my bold):
A Republican legislator says the GOP already reflects the political mainstream in South Dakota, so a new mainstream group that's been formed is not needed.

"It's overwhelming. This is what the people want. We must be in touch with the mainstream in South Dakota; just look at the number of Republican versus the number of Democrats in the Legislature," said state Rep. Ted Klaudt, R-Walker.

"We're Republicans and Republicans are the conservative group (in the Legislature). If you want to be in the Republican Party, you should believe in the party's beliefs and support its platform," he told the Daily Republic.

I guess that big tent's not so big after all.

posted by Scott @ 9:21 AM