[Caleb1411]

I'm sorry, I suppose it is part of the bargain that I have struck with tradition and convention, but I keep feeling that I see a different America from the one the president sees. I don't think we need to be reinvented. I was opposed to the bailouts and remain so. I was opposed to the intervention in automobile manufacturing and remain so. I was opposed to "cash for clunkers" and remain so. I am opposed to the government gaining even more purchase in the delivery of health care. The cash for clunkers Web site kept crashing. The dealers described the paperwork as a nightmare. The dealers are still awaiting their money. It is not plausible that the government can take care of your bad back. That's not the business they are supposed to be in.

[rhema]

Unlike the current Impresario in Chief, Bush 1 didn't have the Dept. of Education contravening the law by producing lesson plans for the schools.

US Code 3403 - Sec. 3403

"The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal Government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States.(b) Curriculum, administration, and personnel; library resources. No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law...."