Day Late, Dollar …
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Having been cast out into the political wilderness (i.e., the minority) once more, House Republicans have found religion again on reducing the size of government.
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The four top leaders in the GOP caucus — John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Adam Putnam and Eric Cantor — have written the “Little Book of Big Government,” which is being distributed to House offices and other interested parties around the city.
“Everything you feared about government just might be true,” the cover warns (funny, we weren’t hearing that when they were running the Congress).
Chapter by chapter, the little book outlines horror stories on taxes, corporate welfare, waste and redundancy. A sample: Under federal law, you can be sent to prison for six months for “disrupting a rodeo” or “the unauthorized use of the image of ‘Smokey the Bear’ or ‘Woodsy Owl.’ ”
The authors aren’t afraid to take a shot or two at their predecessors in the leadership, either. “[O]ur efforts to rein in government failed to produce the results we and our supporters wanted to see,” they write. “Republicans stopped making the case about the need to eliminate wasteful spending and reduce the size and the reach of the federal government.”
