Bush's vision of government is big, activist
by Steven Thomma
Knight Ridder
02/11/05
To Barry Goldwater, the father of the modern conservative movement, government was a threat to individual liberty that needed to be beaten back into submission. To Ronald Reagan, government wasn't the solution, it was the problem. Now, the man who claims the mantle of those earlier conservatives, President Bush, is filling in the fine brushstrokes of a different vision of government for 21st-century America. As defined in his second inaugural address, his latest State of the Union message, his new budget and his four years of experience, Bush envisions the federal government as an expansive, muscular force to project his will at home and abroad...
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10878406.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Knight Ridder
02/11/05
To Barry Goldwater, the father of the modern conservative movement, government was a threat to individual liberty that needed to be beaten back into submission. To Ronald Reagan, government wasn't the solution, it was the problem. Now, the man who claims the mantle of those earlier conservatives, President Bush, is filling in the fine brushstrokes of a different vision of government for 21st-century America. As defined in his second inaugural address, his latest State of the Union message, his new budget and his four years of experience, Bush envisions the federal government as an expansive, muscular force to project his will at home and abroad...
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10878406.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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