FreedomWorks brought 175 activists to Washington for a two-day Liberty Summit, where Dick Armey said fiscal conservatives are now fighting big government on two fronts:

"Our guys are feeling a lot of frustration right now," said former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the Texas Republican and chairman of FreedomWorks.
By "our guys," Mr. Armey meant advocates of "old-fashioned, conservative, small-government values," who he says are now sandwiched between a liberal Democratic majority in Congress and a White House controlled by "big-government conservatives."

"To us, it's oxymoronic to talk about big-government conservatism," the former college economics professor told The Washington Times in an interview. "It's either big government or it's conservative, but it can't be both."

At yesterday's briefing on earmark reform, Mr. Coburn -- widely known as a foe of pork-barrel spending -- was "like a rock star ... losing himself in the crowd," said FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon, who called the event "Woodstock for fiscal conservatives."