Republicans have consistently backed measures which usurp a citizen's right to privacy, while allowing the current administration to run roughshod over property rights, the right to protection against illegal search and seizure, the right of the people to be armed, and the right of the states to make their own laws. Continuing to fund the agencies that do these things amounts to de facto support. The Republicans could not even muster enough power to force the House to vote on a declaration of war in Yugoslavia. Worse, a large number of GOP members openly supported Clinton's decision to go to war with a sovereign country, violating precious U.N. rules governing conflicts with member states and NATO's own charter prohibiting offensive military action against a sovereign country. Yet military expenditures continue to drop while spending on anti-conservative big government bureaucracy has increased.
Inflation continues, as does the destruction of the public education system.
And on and on. The fact is most Republicans have been no friends of smaller government for decades. While the GOP was in the minority in the House and Senate, Republican presidents helped pass measures that increased the size and scope of the federal government. And now that the GOP has control of Congress, the Congress is helping to pass measures increasing the size and scope of the federal government. For all practical purposes, there has been little difference.