[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday January 24, 2007 at 6:58am]
Who is John Galt?
Maybe I'm just hearing what I want to hear, but I'm wondering if Atlas isn't at least toying with shrugging. Rush Limbaugh said he was done "carrying water" after the devastating election. Laura Ingraham is chasing "RATS" (Republicans Agreeing to Surrender). Triple A and Jason Lewis are calling out Jim Ramstad for voting 6 for 6 with Pelosi's first 100 hours bills. And early polling foreshadows another GOP pasting in 2008 unless the Democrats blow it.
There is still significant opposition to the bi-partisan de facto amnesty immigration bill. And yesterday, a small but much appreciated group of GOP Legislators openly criticized Governor Pawlenty's plan to spend the entire surplus.
So is a split coming in the Republican Party? Possibly, but almost certainly not as a separate party unless a charismatic John Galt shows up. (Or Dagny Taggart?) More likely, it will be a passive boycott born of apathy toward those like Governor Pawlenty who promised to be conservative but now fancies that he's "grown" in office.
There is still significant opposition to the bi-partisan de facto amnesty immigration bill. And yesterday, a small but much appreciated group of GOP Legislators openly criticized Governor Pawlenty's plan to spend the entire surplus.
So is a split coming in the Republican Party? Possibly, but almost certainly not as a separate party unless a charismatic John Galt shows up. (Or Dagny Taggart?) More likely, it will be a passive boycott born of apathy toward those like Governor Pawlenty who promised to be conservative but now fancies that he's "grown" in office.