Senator Coburn: Republicans Are in Denial

An excellent article in today's Wall Street Journal by Senator Tom Coburn, who writes that "Republicans Are in Denial."

What's he getting at? Here's a clip:

"Unfortunately, too many in our party are not yet ready to return to the path of limited government. Instead, we are being told our message must be deficient because, after all, we should be winning in certain areas just by being Republicans. Yet being a Republican isn't good enough anymore. Voters are tired of buying a GOP package and finding a big-government liberal agenda inside. What we need is not new advertising, but truth in advertising."

"Becoming Republicans again will require us to come to grips with what has ailed our party – namely, the triumph of big-government Republicanism and failed experiments like the K Street Project and "compassionate conservatism." If the goal of the K Street Project was to earmark and fund raise our way to a filibuster-proof "governing" majority, the goal of "compassionate conservatism" was to spend our way to a governing majority."

He slams "compassionate conservatism" and says "Spending other people's money is not compassionate."

Read on here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121184690228421415.html?mod=rss_opinion_main