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Pajamas Media » My Fellow Conservatives, Let's Be Bad Guys!

Stephen Green writes: "No matter what we do, we're painted as the villains. So let's twirl our mustaches and get to work....

"We cannot buy our way into friendship in Washington for the next four years. We aren't going to become popular by playing along with Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or the president....

"Republicans spent the last eight years trying to do the "smart" thing, by buying out the Democratic agenda.... Well, we've tried the smart thing and all it got us was a bigger, more meddlesome government. Now it's time to do the right thing....

"Most importantly, we need to push for a sunset provision to all this so-called 'stimulus spending.'...As political junkies, we know the stimulus was really Porkzilla, with most of the "emergency" spending of this monster back-loaded into 2011 or beyond. The Democrats can be cornered on this one -- demand that any back-end spending provision expire as soon as the economy returns to positive growth."