The real reason that Conservatives have suddenly discovered a distrust of government, of course, is that they’re out of power. It’s not as if the deficit wasn’t outrageously large last year, and it’s not as if the Bush administration wasn’t out-spending even the LBJ administration on all its pork projects, endless wars, and prescription drug programs for eight long years.
The GOP, the Party extolled by Conservatives every two years as mankind’s last great hope for civilization, racked up deficits and spent sums of money far greater than that ever suggested by Clinton or Carter, and yet now, all of a sudden, Conservatives turn out and would have us believe that they’re opposed to big government.
George W. Bush ran as a "compassionate conservative." He was neither compassionate nor conservative. With a Republican Congress at his back for the first six years of his Presidency, his tenure ramped up the federal deficit and trampled on personal liberty. The Democrats are picking up the torch of GWB and running in the same direction. We do not have a two party system because the differences between Republicans and Democrats are inconsequential.
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