Joel Hefley: “the current budget battle in Washington shows clearly how conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats disagree about…”

“the current budget battle in Washington shows clearly how conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats disagree about the role of government. Republicans think that the Federal Government is too big. Democrats think that it is not big enough. Republicans have been pushing for tax cuts. The liberals are horrified at the very idea and call, as the previous speaker just did, tax cuts giveaways. Republicans are insisting that we begin to reverse the dangerous decline in our military preparedness. Democrats have been fighting for even less defense. Republicans blocked a White House attempt to impose national standardized tests in elementary schools. Democrats urged the creation of a national gun registry in their latest effort to weaken second amendment rights. Republicans stopped the President's big government initiative to create a new handout, free needles for drug addicts. Democrats tried to create a national identity card. Republicans stopped that, too. Bigger government versus smaller government and more freedom, that is what is at stake. That is what this budget battle has been about over these last few weeks.”