LARRY KUDLOW: For Republicans, where’s the big bang tax and spending pro-growth budget package?

why is the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House arguing about whether to pass a continuing resolution instead of putting a real pro-growth budget on the board? A CR is a punt. It funds the government at existing levels for a few more months and calls it a win. That's not what winning elections is supposed to buy you.

Republicans didn't campaign on keeping the lights on. They campaigned on making the 2017 tax cuts permanent, unwinding the regulatory sludge that's been choking small business, and actually doing something about spending that's been running on autopilot since nobody in Washington wanted to own the cuts. Reconciliation exists precisely so a party with unified control can move that kind of package without needing sixty votes and a miracle. Instead the conversation in the Capitol is about procedural survival, not substance.

Part of this is just Congress being Congress. Deadlines concentrate the mind, and leadership would rather avoid a shutdown story than write a budget story. But there's a cost to that caution. Every month spent negotiating a stopgap is a month not spent locking in the pro-growth agenda voters actually asked for, and majorities like this one don't last forever.

If the plan is to wait for some perfect legislative moment to swing for the fences, that moment is now, not after the midterms shrink the margin. A governing majority that only governs defensively isn't using the majority it has..