Less is More

Via RCP, Larry Kudlow:

GOP budget obesity is a huge problem -- and it's not just a tax threat. Politically, a big-spending GOP will demoralize its increasingly frustrated small-government conservative base. These are the folks who can carry the election in November. Without them, the GOP Congress will be sunk.

Do voters and taxpayers really want Harlem Democrat Charlie Rangel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee? Let's take a peak into the future: In the House, Rangel will ignite tax-hike legislation. Next door in the Senate, Democrat Ted Kennedy will look to raise the minimum wage. Trial lawyers will rule the roost in their battle to undermine business. Wacko left-wing attempts to censure or impeach President Bush will move to center stage. Cut-and-run will become our new defense policy.

There is a way out. End budget obesity. Republicans must understand that the old pork-barrel politics of buying elections doesn't work anymore. This is a center-right country that sees smaller government and lower taxes as the key to prosperity and economic freedom. The GOP must get back to this first principle. The Kyls, Cornyns, DeMints and Pences have the story right, while the liberal Specters of the party are completely wrong. Which GOP is going to triumph?

Less is More.