I’ve blogged about our local GOP in the past and some of the problems he has faced. Well last night the Butler County GOP got together and voted him out of power:

The Butler County Republican party ousted its incumbent chairman Wednesday, May 26, voting instead for a Liberty Twp. trustee backed by some of the party’s biggest names as its new leader.

David Kern, a Tea Party activist, defeated incumbent chairman Tom Ellis in a 108-98 vote of the GOP’s central committee at Tori’s Station.

Kern had strong support from Congressman John Boehner and state Sen. Gary Cates, both West Chester Twp. Republicans who campaigned on Kern’s behalf earlier this week; Boehner in the form of a “robo-call” Tuesday evening and Cates in the form of a letter to the 298 central committee members.

So we have another example of the GOP being taken over by the Tea Party. Of course the new leader is just as out of touch as the outgoing one:

“The anger is not against us. The anger is at President (Barack) Obama’s socialist agenda,” Kern said. “Our goal is to do all we can … to save our beloved republic.”

And yet people still rate the Democrats higher than Republicans in every public poll. Even Kern’s biggest supporter, John Boehner, helped President Bush turn a surplus into a deficit and grow the federal government. As matter of fact, want to know which party historically raises federal spending when in control of the White House?

It looks like the Republicans have the biggest track record of expanded spending, even on non-defense. What’s funny is that Reagan is the only republican to actually cut non-defense spending, and a lot of that was already set in motion by Carter. Carter did a lot more cuts than Reagan did. Just look at the drop from Nixon/Ford to carter.

So where is the real anger? The anger is in Washington as a whole. People are tired of our elected leaders getting into office and totally going back on what they promised. For the first 8 years of this decade, Republicans did not care one bit about the huge growth in spending, or the fact that they eliminated a budget surplus. They didn’t care about it until they were out of power. So who says they will cut spending after going back into power?