Time to Be Outward Bound

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 by RLR From The Washington Post By Eugene Robinson Since George W. Bush became president, the Republican Party has presided over massive, out-of-control government spending, converted a federal budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit, and looked the other way while Wall Street’s greed and stupidity turned the hallowed free market into scorched earth. Now the party has to watch as a Republican president orchestrates the biggest government intervention in the workings of the private sector since the New Deal. Can any Republican candidate claim with a straight face to represent the party of small government? For that matter, can any Republican candidate... [read full story]                    

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