here’s Bernard Goldberg commenting on this topic. The quote is from the Cato Institute

“’When a Republican controlled Congress was facing the big-spending
tendencies of a Democratic White House, they were more apt to fight to keep spending under control. When Republicans took control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, however, the story changed’”. The party that used to blast the Democrats for spending ‘our hard-earned money’ on every social welfare boondoggle under the sun started the doing exactly the same thing.
You take over both houses of Congress and the White House and you get drunk
on the power. You forget what you stand for. Republicans shamelessly became the defenders of big government.”

The republican controlled big government also brought in such freedom loving polices such as extraordinary rendition, torture, indefinite detention without trial, a massive assault on the rights of American Citizens through the patriot act and embarked on ill concieved, illicit wars based on totally fabricated evidence.

Compassionate conservatism in action…

Of course Obama and his democratically controlled congress have done nothing to reverse these policies so I guess a pox on both their houses is in order.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/harry_reid_yawns_during_obamas_state_of_the_union.html