It's About Friggin' Time

Fiscal Conservatives are finally getting serious about cutting out wasteful spending:

House Republican leaders have moved from balking at big cuts in Medicaid and other programs to embracing them, driven by pent-up anger from fiscal conservatives concerned about runaway spending and the leadership's own weakening hold on power.

Beginning this week, the House GOP lawmakers will take steps to cut as much as $50 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget for health care for the poor, food stamps and farm supports, as well as considering across-the-board cuts in other programs. Only last month, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) and other GOP leaders quashed demands within their party for budget cuts to pay for the soaring cost of hurricane relief.

Aside from the obvious slant of the article, this is good news. The deficit is a potential huge issue for whomever is the Republican candidate. Bush has been anything but fiscally conservative and the Dems have let him spend away as needed. Sanity must prevail and it's good that the true Republicans are seeing it.