PORKBUSTERS UPDATE — IS THERE A REPUBLICAN DEATH WISH? Andy Roth reports:

Clearly the folks at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) are paying no attention to blogger demands that the party structure help bring about fiscal restraint in Congress.

They are running a TV ad AGAINST an anti-pork, fiscally conservative Republican challenger to an incumbent who voted against the Bush tax cuts and had the second lowest score among Republican senators in the most recent National Taxpayers Union rating of Congress (PDF). The NRSC is in full attack mode against a candidate who has made pork a key issue.

What is the message here?

I guess Ed Morrissey’s “Not One Dime” to the NRSC campaign hasn’t taken hold, yet. And it’s certainly support for Neal Boortz’s position:

I’m sorry, but the Republicans richly deserve to lose control over the House and the Senate in 2006. There is no excuse whatsoever for their profligate spending, and no excuse for Tom Delay’s absurd claim that there is no fat in the federal budget. Every American should be disgusted at this spending spectacle.

Quite a few Republicans seem to be disappointed.