>Sure, the people who vote Republican believe it, but the elected officials don't.
... which is why the Republican Party is set to lose an election that should have been an easy lay-up.
>During the Bush years, when the Republicans controlled congress and the presidency, federal spending grew enormously.
That's how we ended up with the budget sequester, which is the only thing that seems to have actually worked since the Gingrich House in the mid '90s. Now that the sequester is gone federal spending will grow in leaps and bounds no matter who is in power. It's built into the system.