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John Kasich: Can’t Figure Out Republicans
Like a disillusioned sports fan, former Republican House budget committee chairman turned Fox News host John Kasich feels frustrated with his Republican team, and it has nothing to do with the Supreme Court nomination.
Once a cost-cutting symbol of the Republican Revolution of the mid-1990s, Kasich scratches his head with some of the free-spending moves made by his party today.
"I can’t figure out what the heck they are trying to do or what their agenda is,” Kasich told fellow Fox News host Neil Cavuto. "I like to say that Republicans were put on this earth to cut spending and to cut taxes. That’s why God created them, but we haven’t been doing this on the spending side.”
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Kasich said Republicans seem to have been infected by a germ similar to one that grew within the Democratic Party for decades, one that paradoxically grows larger and larger as it produces more waste. "The president has not served us well when it comes to spending, when it comes to trimming the bureaucracy,” Kasich said. "When government tries to be all things to all people, it fails at the essentials. We saw this with the reaction to Hurricane Katrina – a failure to execute.”
In a case of political role reversal, said Kasich, Democrats are now playing the old Republican game, which is to criticize but not put an agenda forward. The GOP game stopped in 1994; but now, a decade later, the game has resumed while the players seem to have changed sides of the board.
"What helped the Republicans win the majority in the 1994 election was the Contract with America. We had an agenda – a plan to get things done. If Republicans are smart, they will stand up for the things that Americans elected them to do.”
When asked if the Bush administration risks losing seats for Republicans in 2006 by taking controversial stands on key issues, such as cost-cutting in the face of natural disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Kasich stood firm.
"Politics is not about getting elected,” he said. "It’s about doing something when you are there.”
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