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...
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