Walt Jones isn’t wrong about this:

Republicans lost their congressional majority by losing their way, Jones said.

“I regret that we lost the majority,” Jones said. “But the reason that we lost the majority was the unpopularity of George Bush and the fact that we did not stick to our principles. Republicans are not supposed to be big spenders.”

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But take note of the paragraph right before his statement:

Working in a Congress run by Democrats hasn’t been hard for Jones, who said he largely gets along with members of the other party. He noted that his staff has had productive talks with Democratic leaders about a proposal to raise health standards on imported seafood. Another Jones initiative — construction of a national monument honoring military dogs that served in Vietnam — has made its way into a defense bill, he added.

A monument honoring dogs …………

Certainly that’s an expenditure of great importance to our nation’s defense because the good Congressman wouldn’t be lecturing his party on frivolous spending while partaking in the fray, would he?