For GOP, big spending is awful politics

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Jack Hunter is right on target in his Jan. 24 column lamenting the lack of fiscal responsibility among self-proclaimed conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill. What’s worse, those Republicans are ignoring history showing their profligacy is bad politics, too.

In the past 25 years, Republicans have thrived in congressional elections when they actually act like fiscal conservatives. When they don’t so act, they lose.

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