At Townhall.com
After the past few weeks, many GOP conservatives - and Tea Partiers - are beginning to understand how some of the Obamaphiles feel. Like Obama supporters, conservatives worked hard to secure leadership that, we believed, both understood what was best for America and had the courage to stand firm for real change. But the first months of GOP congressional control have been disappointing; if the GOP leadership continues down its current road, the disillusionment now being expressed by erstwhile Obama supporters like Matt Damon will soon be an entirely bipartisan affair.
Certainly, there's no doubt that John Boehner and other congressional leaders have a tough job. In the interest of restoring America's financial health, they are stuck proposing spending cuts and long-term, structural changes to well-beloved entitlement programs. What's more, they're forced to deal with a President whose budget reflected a fundamental unseriousness about the looming fiscal crisis -- and an obvious strategy of abdicating all budgetary responsibility in order to be able to demonize the GOP for any proposed cuts…
Instead, it's beginning to look, once again, like leaders in the highest ranks of the GOP are more focused on their standing inside the Beltway than the promises they made to the people outside it. But this time, that won't cut it; it's an invitation for Tea Partiers to form their own, third party, and a recipe for political disaster come 2012. (Read it all here …)
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