...For the first time since Ronald Reagan began the party’s comeback after Watergate, the party’s Congressional leadership is surrendering the party’s principles on national security and national defense. Slowly over the years they gave up on spending restraint and cultural issues. The Gang of 14 undercut their resolve on judges. The size of government long ago got tossed overboard.But the party has never faltered on national security and national defense. Not since Reagan declared “We win. They lose.” Not since he deployed the Pershing Iis and the cruise missiles in Europe. Not since the Wall came down. Not since 9/11.
Now, because of the loss of six Senate seats --some of them for reasons wholly unrelated to the war—and control of the House in the sixth year election clouded by predatory and crooked backbenchers, the Congressional GOP is turning over its claim to seriousness on national security and national defense...
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