Quote Of The Day: What Has Gone Wrong With The GOP In Washington

30 Jan, 2006 by John Hawkins

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“Mr. Armey, a former economics professor, vividly recalls the House leadership meeting in late 2001 that prompted his decision to retire. Afterwards he returned to his office and wrote down his summary of how he saw the GOP Congress behaving: “We come to this town and we do things we ought not to be doing in order to stay in the majority so we can do things we ought to be doing that we never get around to doing.” A few weeks later the man who was a chief drafter of the 1994 Contract with America announced he was leaving office.” — The Wall Street Journal