Stephen Moore has a depressing column in today's WSJ on the big-government Republicans:

Both political parties are now willing and eager to spend tax dollars as if they were passing out goody-bags to grabby four-year-olds at a birthday party. The Democrats are already forging their 2006 and 2008 message: We will spend just as many trillions of dollars as Republicans, but we will spend them better than they do. After witnessing the first few Republican misappropriations for Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats may very well be right.

Per Vox Day's column today in Worldnetdaily.com, conservatism is arguably dead. At least in national politics.

I've been journeying away from the Republican party this past year, and may have cast my last vote for them, particularly if there is a Conservative Party or Libertarian candidate on the ballot. You can't throw away a vote when it all it does is elect a tax and spend Republican.