Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Session: ideology took back seat to pragmatics as GOP 'delayed principles'

Florida's Republican-led Legislature to moved to the political middle this legislative session as the sour economy and dismal budget year left them little place else to go. To ease the pain of $5 billion in budget cuts over a year, Republicans abandoned a handful of basic conservative tenets: They tapped savings accounts, raised $200 million in user fees and, in a handful of cases, they made government bigger.

Miami Herald

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