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“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, November 17, 2005

GOP Legislative accomplishments?

I've been thinking of bills in the Republican House and Senate that have generated news.

Here's what I recall. Terri Schiavo, a bankruptcy bill that hurts the middle and lower class, a bunch of tax giveaways to the oil industry, the "bridge to nowhere" as an example of runaway spending championed by a Republican Senator, Iraq war oversight, and now the failed education and health spending cuts that still generated a lot of support by the GOP. Oh, and how could I forget their push for Social Security reform that was hated by the public?

If you ask me, that's not really much of a legacy for Republicans to lead into the 2006 elections, is it? At any rate, it's a poor use of "political capital," no?