There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.

Oh, Congress should let it go? Gee, I wonder why he would say that.

They do love the president, but they have seen a Congress that doesn't seem to function well and they wonder what the heck is going on.

Because of this, [Blasdel] is the perfect Republican candidate for Congress ? fiscally irresponsible and a deficit spender. It's no wonder Washington, D.C., Republicans recruited him.

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.

If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, and that's the Democratic Party,