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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jamey who wrote (753155)	11/3/2006 3:26:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The Wall Street Journal's Jackie Calmes: ...writing that the "widespread sense that Republicans in Congress have lost their way, drifting into the same abuses they had pledged to end, helps explain why many, like" Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) "are in trouble. The Republicans' 1994 'Contract with America' vowed to shrink government, balance the budget and limit members' terms. The Republicans said they would end Congress's 'cycle of scandal and disgrace.' That contract is now broken, conservatives say, as the former rebels have morphed into an establishment clinging to power. The national debt now nears $9 trillion. Rather than curb entitlement programs' growth, Republicans created a new one — Medicare's prescription-drug benefit — and rejected President Bush's call to overhaul Social Security. Their original vow to kick the pork barrel has given way to gorging on 'earmarks' — funds lawmakers specifically set aside for special projects — in the annual appropriations bills. There have been a number of corruption probes."