What’s funny is that all the things Bush is criticized for are Big Government follies:
Spending, pork, and unbalanced budgets (doesn’t it make you laugh to hear liberals criticize runaway spending?)
The War/Alienation of Allies (since the sixties, war has been defended by conservatives. But it was not so long ago that Democrats were the war party, see: Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson)
No Child Left Behind/Medicare (suddenly liberals realize the inefficiency and counter-productiveness of buearacracy)
Harriet Meyers, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld (inexperienced leaders, sound familiar, Barrack?)
He gets flack about truly conservative positions on tax cuts and Social Security, but liberals must attack everything conservatives do, be it Big or Limited Government.
My notion is that everyone, no matter how libertarian, is convinced to turn Big Government when they fall into power. The temptation is too great. Even Jefferson submitted, McCain and Bush are certainly no Jeffersons.
“What’s funny is that all the things Bush is criticized for are Big Government follies:”
I think people are starting waking up to that, but I dont want us to live through Obama just to get people fully woken up to it.