Staying Home

Writing for the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes spells out how Republicans will try to distract voters from a growing civil war in Iraq and growing fiscal irresponsibility at home:

This spring and summer, Republican leaders in the Senate and House plan to bring up a series of issues that are popular with the Republican base of voters. The aim is to stir conservative voters and spur turnout in the November election...House Republicans, for their part, intend to seek votes on measures such as the Bush-backed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a bill allowing more public expression of religion, another requiring parental consent for women under 18 to get an abortion, legislation to bar all federal courts except the Supreme Court from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, a bill to outlaw human cloning, and another that would require require doctors to consider fetal pain before performing an abortion.

I remember when Republicans talked about shrinking the federal government to get their base to turn out. I guess those days are over.

I will be staying home on election day.

Via Andrew Sullivan