I’m guessing it won’t be the great GOP year many expect.

According to polls by the Civitas Institute and just about everyone else, Republicans are in a dead heat with Democrats this year. Voters hate ObamaCare and are ready for change. But you need to live the change you talk about, and so far Republicans haven’t done that.

This isn’t just about the national GOP blowing three races, including this past Tuesday’s election to replace the late, corrupt, John Murtha.

Here in North Carolina, three Senate Republicans voted for the anti-freedom $19 billion budget. Instead of going after the profligate spending, $1.6 billion in on-time federal money, the flat-out earmarked pork for RTI International (though the budget writers couldn’t even get the name right) and Wireless Generation, or the continued refusal to consider low-cost alternatives for the state health plan, the Senate GOP complains about what the Senate did not spend on school buses.

The mind reels.