Bill Thomas: The WRONG Direction
I won’t shoot the messenger because John Fund is a great conservative journalist, and a friend. But talk being the bearer of ill tidings, the United States of America needs this news like it needs and outbreak of the measles.
In an entry by Fund today in the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary, he reports that Congress Bill Thomas ("R" – Bakersfield) is looking at entering the competition to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader.
You have heard me talk a lot about the challenge of the Republican Party – that there are GOP majorities in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and there is a Republican in the White House. And still we continue to preside over the largest expansion of the federal government in the history of America.
Well, let me tell you, Bill Thomas is a BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM. I know that he tries to maintain some sort of ‘policy-wonkish’ center-right image inside of the Beltway. Don’t believe it — actions speak louder than words. Thomas has a decades long track record of supporting for office the kind of politicians… Read More