I hardly think so. One and all can have an anyerism over Dubya's spending plans when in effect his spending is one he!! of a government spending cut! He is performing fabulously in respect to making sure another liberal democrat does not get re-elected. We have got a tax cut and at the same time a military spending increase. Both of which are formitable conservative concerns. If Dubya' goes for broke and cuts across the board he is assured of being a 1 term President. My way of looking at it is his increase in spending on these programs are a cost factor in doing business to cut government spending. After all if he loses the election I can guarantee massive spending that will put to shame what Dubya' has on the table for spending and massive tax increases to pay for it, on top of it, which has been professed by ALL the Democratic runners as a platform for election.
I hardly think that ANYBODY feels that if Algore got elected that we would be better off today. These changes take time and if Dubya' changes things overnite, the shock to the population would prevent his re-election.
I don't think so either. But that doesn't mean we should start creating huge, new entitlement programs that will dramatically increase spending and require new taxes down the line.
I ain't very smart, but that don't make no sense.
-- NOT -- Making sure the goverment does what it's supposed to do without blowing too much money, that's hard. I'm not impressed.
Actually as POTUS, head of the executive side of the government Bush shouldn't be pushing bills which answer question of how much or little social services there should be, he should be making sure that what ever gets decided by congress gets done well. He's supposed to be out there wipping burocrats' butts into shape, downsizing unnessesary parts of the government and improving the service of the nessesary parts.
Is this happening? We won't always know. I doubt it though.