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Did 2010 Create Real – Or Just Expedient – Change Among Elected Republicans?

Independent voters – who are largely conservative, particularly on fiscal issues – will throw out either political party when it says one thing and does another

Also:

– Koch brothers (the wrong ones) receive a death threat;
– Major school choice progress nation-wde

May 4, 2011

by Benjamin Hodge

In 1994, Republicans captured both Houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.  Those Republicans were sent to change Washington, but Washington soon changed the Republicans, who by 2006 were functioning as a pro-life, somewhat-less socialist version of the Democratic party.

When Republicans spend like Democrats, the result is both bad policy and bad politics.  Independent voters – who are largely conservative, particularly on fiscal issues – will throw out either political party when it says one thing and does another.

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