From HotAir:
Two successive national-election losses still hasn’t clued Republicans into the need for dramatic change in their direction. The House GOP caucus rejected a plan by John Boehner and Eric Cantor to impose a unilateral moratorium on pork-barrel spending, even a short term freeze:
“Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio and Eric Cantor of Virginia had unveiled late Wednesday a moratorium on GOP earmark requests through Feb. 16 while a new panel of Republicans comes up with proposals for permanent restrictions and disclosure requirements for earmarks
“But Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, an appropriator, offered an amendment to strip the requirement for an earmark moratorium. And Tiahrt’s moratorium-killing proposal was approved by the full caucus, said several GOP aides. The amended rules package was then adopted.”
So what’s the strategy now? Pray that Democrats overreach so badly that people will vote Republican in 2010 out of spite? That’s not a strategy, that’s a hubris all on its own.
