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Mark Steyn: The GOP is a joke

February 15, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn writes:

Canada, Australia and New Zealand are doing it now, not legislating fairyland cuts that kick in eight years after the legislators’ terms of office end. Granted, all those countries have conservative governments, which the US is in no danger of getting any time soon. But here’s why the Republican Party really isn’t good enough: it’s not just that the GOP is less fiscally conservative – by which I mean fiscally responsible – than other conservative parties, it’s less fiscally conservative than many left-wing governments. The Liberal Party of Canada spent the “fat” years of the Nineties paying off the national debt, prompting my old comrade Kate O’Beirne to joke, “If only we could get American conservatives to be as fiscally responsible as Canadian liberals” – a jest one could also extend to the Australian Labor Party, which, while certainly profligate in Aussie terms, was a paragon of rectitude compared to Boehner and the gang.

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