From: Randall Parker 

They are all whores because they are incentivized to be whores. Public Choice Theory
shows why this is so:
    http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoiceTheory.html

The Republican elected officials try to outbid the elected Democrats to appeal to
highly interested swing voters (e.g. seniors) for votes and the result is gruesome to
behold.

Monte Davis wrote:

> ...But the main reason reducing the size of government can't be the
> party's animating principle is that Republicans have no credibility on
> this subject. During the Reagan years, Republicans tried to cut the
> size of government and failed, then blamed the Democrats controlling
> Congress. In 1995, Republicans tried to reduce the size of government
> and failed, then blamed the Democrats controlling the White House. Now
> Republicans control everything, and over the past three years the size
> of government has still increased, not even counting the war on
> terror."
>
> Note to Gary "it always was and will be the Democrats' fault" Britt:
>
> Do try to keep up.
>
>

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