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Thursday, January 20, 2005

Is the GOP Really the Governing Party?

Paul Gigot asks, in the Wall Street Journal:

I don't mean "governing" in the sense of merely making the Beltway trains run on time and surviving as a majority. The Republican test going forward, and one voters should hold them to, is whether the party can now put its permanent stamp on Washington in a way that is consistent with its professed conservative philosophy. More than just a challenge for Mr. Bush, the next two years will tell us if this GOP majority is made to last or will be as evanescent as the Whigs.

Read the whole thing HERE.

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