Power Lineup

As you're leaving, please would you close the door?
--The Outfield

The past couple of weeks have reinforced the notion that Republicans and Democrats in Washington say one thing then do another so that, in the end, they look more alike than different.

Republicans have been banging the drum about the need to get debt and spending under control. Yet, with notable exceptions among the Tea Party minority, the GOP has been lining up behind proposals to increase the federal govt debt ceiling and to cut spending by trivial amounts.

Democrats have long claimed to be opposed to war. And Dems loudly voiced opposition to military actions taken under the Bush administration. However, when a president from their own party takes similarly unconstitutional military action, this time in Libya, Democrats largely line up and shut up.

Both parties wear the same uniform--the uniform of Big Government.

And they all hit for power.