Moving Backwards

The setbacks for the party at the ballot box on Tuesday have continued in Congress this week.

• Senators have been unable to get the tax cut package out of the Finance Committee.
• The victory on ANWR has been overturned.
• H.R. 4121, the Deficit Reduction Act was postponed 'til next week becauseof hesitance by party moderates.
  

Somebody needs to take charge on Capitol Hill. Neither the House nor the Senate can keep the party together well enough to push the sensible conservative policies the American people sent them to Washington to accomplish.

With a Republican Congress, sensible tax cuts and deficit reduction should be slam dunks. Why can we not make this happen?