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The Republican Party Is Not an Anti-Spending Party

On the Republican Party, you know what I keep going back to? Do you remember the first, was it the American Rescue Plan? Was that the 1.9 trillion one when Biden first came in? The GOP is just simply not an anti-spending party. It is an anti-democrat spending party and even there, unreliably so. On the Obama years where a bunch of us kept using the phrase, this is all about expanding the baseline,. That's the kind of phrase you drop at a bar and the chicks just come running.

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