Bitter Pill

Where We Went Wrong - washingtonpost.com

Dick Armey, of all people, on the current state of the Republican Party:

Now spending is out of control. Rather than rolling back government, we have a new $1.2 trillion Medicare prescription drug benefit, and non-defense discretionary spending is growing twice as fast as it had in the Clinton administration. Meanwhile, Social Security is collapsing while rogue nations are going nuclear and the Middle East is more combustible than ever. Yet Republican lawmakers have taken up such issues as flag burning, Terri Schiavo and same-sex marriage.

Armey is also probably right that if the Democrats win control of Congress in the coming election, they need to concentrate on sound policy that is good for the country rather than simply settling scores with the Republicans. Where Armey is wrong is in the implication that doing so is synonymous with surrendering to the Republican agenda of 1994.