Now that's an understatement ...

From a editorial by Republican Rep from Arizona, Jeff Flake:

I suggest that we return to first principles. At the top of that list has to be a recommitment to limited government. After eight years of profligate spending and soaring deficits, voters can be forgiven for not knowing that limited government has long been the first article of faith for Republicans.

After that whopping understatement he goes on to propose propagandizing a message of 'economic freedom' as a way to save the Republican Party and stop the Democrats from implementing any meaningful changes to help the country out of the mess Bush and these same Republican left it in. I suppose there are plenty of people willing to believe them again.

By the way, Jeff Flake was the only member of Congress to vote no on the Plain Language in Government Communications Act of 2008.

NOTE: Some wording changed in this post.

By implication Arizona's Shadegg and Flake consider spending money for a potential bird flu outbreak as pork ...

Shadegg, Flake criticize Democratic tactics on war bill by Mike Sunnucks, The Business Journal of Phoenix

I guess from the point of view of Arizona Republican Congresscritters John Shadegg and Jeff Flake instead of spending money on the health and welfare of the nation our tax dollars should be streamlined into the veins of Haliburton or some other Republican mafia corporation.

Though I'm not up on the issue of peanut storage in George (perhaps it is pork) but levee reconstruction in New Orleans and the potential of a bird flu outbreak are real issues that the Republicans ignored as they spent down the treasury with their pet war in Iraq.

How they can mention budgets and pet projects and pork with a straight face and how anyone with a brain (oh, sorry, that excludes most of the media, doesn't it) would actually care or write about what these Bush enablers think is beyond belief.