choices about compromise. if you get the republicans keeping the house majority, the democrats keep a narrow senate majority and a lot of new members are more to the extreme, then you get more of the same, if not worse. ryan, you saw it in the interview i did with peter king, the republican congressman from new york, almost two parts of the republican party right now are merging very different, not only on domestic issues but on national security issues. yeah, that s sort of interesting. on the right and the left, there s this sort of populist anti-government movement gathering around civil liberties issues and what pete king, what king would call isolationist. i don t think rand paul considers himself an isolationist. but that divide, look, rand paul is still a bit of an outlyer. he s the only one worked up on the nsa spying. in the house, there s a little more of a paul wing. i think that s where the tea party energy is and where the energy is in the republican party. let me pl
if you went to h in the dictionary and found hypocrite, under that would be people who ask for earmarks but vote against them. not pretty. i have to say i love some of the consistent two-party activists are calling this deporkricy. and it is a classic example. but i think the question becomes, do you want to move the business of the senate forward and possibly get a vote on s.t.a.r.t. or don t ask, don t tell or go read through this bill which really has become a monstrosity of a kind of arrogance that was repudiated in this election, an overspending impulse a lot of the appropriators do still have. eric, here is the test for the right. you did postings saying vote against the tax cut plan. you don t like it because it raises the deficit. vote against the spending plan because of the pork in there. the question is, will the republicans here, new and old, listen? do they think the tea party energy, the tea party threat