All Intensive Purposes

Ramesh Ponnuru interviews former RNC head Ed Gillespie:

I was about to end the call when he added a comment about spending: "We need to stake a vigorous claim on fiscal discipline now and demonstrate to all voters, but particularly our voters, that we can rein in federal spending."

That will be easier—this is me talking now, not Gillespie—since Republicans will no longer be responsible for actually passing budgets and appropriations bills.

I detect no irony.