Fencesitter has an odd sense of history
Ed Morissey on Arlen Specter’s curious assertion of being left behind by a GOP lurching rapidly to the right:
First, let’s deal with the canard that the GOP has moved “far to the right”. When exactly did that happen? When a Republican-controlled Congress, yoked to a Republican White House, grew federal spending by 50% in six years? Would that be the GOP that created a new entitlement program for prescription medication? The same Republicans that expanded spending above inflation on discretionary areas like education 58%, health research and regulation 55%, community and regional development 94% and on entitlement programs like Medicare 51%?
So yeah, except for the massive increases in domestic spending, their “rightness” pretty much jumps off the charts. Just ask any Democrat.
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