Lincoln Chaffee, career RINO, has broken the hearts of no one by leaving the Republican party:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too far from him on critical issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and the environment.
“It’s not my party anymore,” Chafee, who represented Rhode Island from 1999 until 2007, told The Providence Journal in an article published Saturday.
It never was your party, Lincoln. You were a Republican In Name Only. The only thing I do agree with him on is this:
He also criticized Republican leaders for abandoning fiscal conservatism, once a mainstay of the GOP’s platform, by passing tax cuts without spending cuts..
He started out well, but…
to balance the resulting loss of revenue.
…blew it at the end.
You pass spending cuts because the government shouldn’t be spending on a majority of the things it is spending on today. There was an increase in revenue following the tax cuts. Spending cuts would make it possible to pay on the debt, instead of on the interest only. His statement further illustrates why he was never really a fiscal conservative.
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