The Wall Street Journal takes a look back at the G.O.P. record in its editorial today, and it isn't impressed with the 109th Congress' accomplishments.
The editorial board does credit Republicans for the successful confirmation of two new U.S. Supreme Court judges, and the financing of the ongoing war in Iraq.
A paragraph in the middle of the piece takes a shot at Majority Whip Roy Blunt:
"Social Security reform was never going to be easy, and Mr. Bush's war-driven decline in job approval meant he couldn't move any Democrats. But that still doesn't excuse such prominent Republicans as Tom Davis (Virginia) and Roy Blunt (Missouri) for resisting their President's reform effort behind the scenes. So frightened were they that they never even brought the subject up for a vote."
The Journal goes on to write that the Republicans most puzzling failure this term was not doing "anything at all on health care."
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Another reason to not vote for Roy Blunt... like there weren't enough already.
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I have been seeing the Wall Street Journal calling out the Republicans and the Washington Post calling out the Democrats. It is time to start being accountable.
Over 50 percent of the national budget goes to fund Social Security and Medicare.
What happens when that goes over *75* percent of the budget, or more?
At what point does government grow so big, it actually implodes and becomes something like a black hole? You know... one of those objects that sucks up everything in its path...
Come to think of it, government IS that something.
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