It's Official

One thing that really gives Republicans a hard on is tough guy talk about small government. It's supposedly their prominent ideology. Next to claiming being the Party of God, only small government gets fewer mentions. Despite having absolutely no record of ever shrinking government, and no Reagan didn't shrink government, Republicans still claim they are the Party of small government. I'm in the midst of reading an excellent Washington Times article blasting the GOP for not only failing to shrink government but also for increasing it more than any time since FDR. Yes, the conservative Washington Times is finally catching on that small government is only a campaign slogan to rile the base. It has just as much credibility as their Great Leader George Bush. If the Democrats had failed at such Party Platforms as what the GOP has there would be no way the media would ever let us forget it.

Small government was the very existence of the Republican Party and this is their legacy, this is how they view their platform once in office:

Not since World War II, when the nation mobilized to fight a global war against fascism and recover from the Great Depression, has government spending played as large a role in the economy as it does today.

Wait it gets better...

"We have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society," said Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate vying to replace Mr. Bush in the White House, during the first presidential debate.

That, in fact, was an understatement. No president since FDR — who offered a New Deal to pull the nation out of the Great Depression and then fought World War II — has presided over as rapid a growth in government when measured as a percentage of the total economy.

Fantasy World Republicans will sidestep this article. It's part of the liberal media filters and it's obviously written by an anti-American that hates America. I bet the author doesn't even live in the pro-America parts of the country. Probably from up there in northern Virginia or "communist country" as it's referred to in GOP circles. There is no way a "real American" wrote this.

When the Washington Times prints an article like this it means the modern conservative movement is officially over. Chalk it up.