You know surveyor, I agree with you. And that kind of makes my point. And despite Dick Armey’s assertion, the few voices on the right that did step up and criticize the spending never got much traction. They were never in revolt. He wasn’t in revolt. Armey, through his Freedomworks, was a primary organizer of the Tea Party movement, but the out of control spending of the previous administration wasn’t meaningful enough to him to start it until there was some other guy sitting in the White House. Until there was both political capital and a hook in it. From the outside, I think I know what that hook is.
