Intellectual Conservative
by W. James Antle III

07/18/05

George W. Bush is no green-eyeshade Republican. He has presided over the biggest inflation-adjusted federal spending binge since Lyndon Johnson. A Cato Institute policy analysis published in May concluded that even excluding defense and homeland security expenditures, Bush is the biggest-spending president of the last 30 years. So what does the Republican-controlled Senate do? Outspend him. USA Today reported that Senate Republicans were recoiling from the administration's proposed budget cuts. GOP appropriators, led by such old-timers as Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, are busting through discretionary spending caps by $12 billion and planned cuts are being transformed into spending increases. Your party of limited government and fiscal responsibility at work...

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