{"id":4334,"date":"2006-10-24T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T08:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:28:23","slug":"in_politics_as_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In politics as in other jobs, there is a price to pay for poor performance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So sums up Pete DuPont, former Republican Governor of Delaware (and one of the heirs to the DuPont fortune) in a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal. He&#8217;s referring to the Republican Congress. The title is <strong>Bleak House<\/strong> and the sub-title is <strong>Republicans deserve to lose, but what happens if Democrats win?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/pdupont\/?id=110009141\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Outside the Box<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After going over the pending Democratic agenda (<u>scary<\/u>!) DuPont has this to say about the Republicans:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span face=\"Verdana\">Most Americans have not yet thought much about this agenda, or the leaders who will set it. But they are tired of the Republican congressional performance. The latest NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll shows 16% of Americans approve of congressional performance while 75% disapprove. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>No wonder: Republicans gave line-item veto power to the Democratic president in the 1990s, but refused to give it to the current Republican president. They haven&#8217;t made the Bush tax cuts permanent. They wouldn&#8217;t bring individual ownership of Social Security retirement accounts to a vote. They haven&#8217;t done anything on health care. And they have raised federal spending by $750 billion since 2001 and for fiscal 2006 approved 10,000 earmarks costing $29 billion. Conservative principles seem to have faded away, and ethical principles have weakened&#8211;names like DeLay, Ney, and Foley make the point.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible President Bush and Karl Rove can stem the anti-Republican political tide. But more likely on Nov. 7 American voters will send the Congress a strong disapproval message by voting out the current Republican majority. In politics as in other jobs, there is a price to pay for poor performance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sums up Pete DuPont, former Republican Governor of Delaware (and one of the heirs to the DuPont fortune) in a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal. He&#8217;s referring to the Republican Congress. The title is Bleak House and the sub-title is Republicans deserve to lose, but what happens if Democrats win? OpinionJournal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}