Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
Spending is an addiction.
Dependency encourages social problems.
Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.