THE ONE THING EVERY REPUBLICAN CAN AGREE ON:

Obama's Spending Plans May Pose Political Risks: Concern Mounts in White House as 2010 Elections Loom (Scott Wilson, 6/14/09, Washington Post)

After enjoying months of towering poll numbers, legislative victories and well-received foreign policy initiatives, the White House has become increasingly concerned that President Obama's spending plans, which would require $9 trillion in government borrowing over the next decade, could become a political liability that defines the 2010 midterm elections. [...]

[T]here is evidence of growing public concern over his fiscal policies. As he traveled Thursday in Green Bay, Wis., Obama was greeted by demonstrators holding signs that said, "No socialism" and "Taxed Enough Yet?"

Republican leaders, who have been searching for a way to dent the president's popularity, are training their attacks on his economic policies as they look ahead to the 2010 midterm congressional elections. [...]

[E]ven some leaders in his own party are calling on the president to soon begin making those difficult choices, despite a fragile economy that remains in recession.

Were the GOP to put together a really basic four or five point program for reducing government and government spending--via things like means-testing (emphasizing ag subsidies not entitlements), abolishing cabinet departments, eliminating duplicative and antiquated programs, reorganizing defense, etc.--it could repeat its success from 1994, in the House at any rate.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 14, 2009 7:59 AM