[Grut]

[What a great article!]

It would be, if it had been written in 2001. Du Pont just ignores the fact that since everything the Republicans have done since then contradicts his ideas, they aren't going to listen now.

[harpu]

You know...sometimes a person just can't handle anything but a 'half empty' glass!

[raybbr]

Third, we must bring the rapid growth of government to an end. Domestic discretionary spending rose 7.1% a year in President Bush's first term, the highest of any modern president. Education spending is up 139% in the president's first five years, and government energy spending has doubled. The 2002 farm bill added $8 billion a year to spending, the Medicare prescription drug bill will cost at least $33 billion a year, and ethanol subsidies are up $2.3 billion. Congressional earmarks have grown too, from almost none in the 1980s to some 13,000 last year. Some 6,373 of them, costing $24 billion, were in the recent highway bill. Some vision, some vetoes and some fiscal discipline are needed to control and then decrease annual spending growth.

Yeah. Bush is great!!!!Bush is great!!!!Bush is great!!!!Bush is great!!!!Bush is great!!!!Bush is great!!!!

Keep repeating this over and over. Pretend he and this "conservative" Congress are, in fact, conservatives. Republicans of today are the democrats prior to Gingrich.