What's going on with Republicans?

This is my first blog. I am not the blogging kind of guy. I'm average. Probably sort of middle of the road. (Is it a blog or a Web-log?)

A life-long Republican, too. My father was a Republican, my mother was, too. All my brothers and sisters are Republicans. The old family joke used to be about Aunt Myrtle. We think she was a closet Democrat but she never would confess to it.

I'm not much of an observer of what goes on politically, but I have to wonder what Republicans are doing, not just in Washington, D.C. but in the states.

Through the Internet, I do pop in on current events. Whew. Sometimes I wish I didn't. The state of things in our country just isn't good.

Now I can't blame Republicans alone, though they had power in Washington for a long time. Geez, the Democrats in charge now are bad. too. Republicans, though, still have power in a lot of the state capitols and that's where I read about the laws they pass or regulations or whatnot that really aren't Republican.

I guess it started in Washington where Republicans - when they had power - behaved just like the Democrats and created whole new spending programs. Like the Medicare drug benefit.
Now I'm all for seniors getting the prescriptions they need, but good grief, did anyone really tell us how much that would cost?

Entitlements. We don't need a lot more of those kinds of programs.

Well, since this is my first effort at this, I'll keep it short. Thanks for checking in if you did. Please be understanding. I am a novice at this.

Ken